| The core executive: Gender, power and change C Annesley, F Gains Political Studies 58 (5), 909-929, 2010 | 184 | 2010 |
| Path dependency and the reform of English local government F Gains, PC John, G Stoker Public Administration 83 (1), 25-45, 2005 | 150 | 2005 |
| Delivering ‘public value’: Implications for accountability and legitimacy F Gains, G Stoker Parliamentary affairs 62 (3), 438-455, 2009 | 122 | 2009 |
| ‘Acceptable difference’: Diversity, representation and pathways to UK politics C Durose, L Richardson, R Combs, C Eason, F Gains Parliamentary Affairs 66 (2), 246-267, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| How is institutional formation gendered, and does it make a difference? A new conceptual framework and a case study of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales F Gains, V Lowndes Politics & Gender 10 (4), 524-548, 2014 | 100 | 2014 |
| Executive agencies in government: The impact of bureaucratic networks on policy outcomes F Gains Journal of Public Policy 23 (1), 55-79, 2003 | 100 | 2003 |
| Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup F Gains, G Stoker Policy & Politics 39 (4), 485-498, 2011 | 89 | 2011 |
| The profile of gender equality issue attention in Western E urope C Annesley, I Engeli, F Gains European Journal of Political Research 54 (3), 525-542, 2015 | 76 | 2015 |
| Elite ethnographies: potential, pitfalls and prospects for getting ‘up close and personal’ F Gains Public Administration 89 (1), 156-166, 2011 | 70 | 2011 |
| Women and New Labour: Engendering politics and policy? C Annesley, F Gains Policy Press, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| Adapting the agency concept: variations within ‘Next Steps’ F Gains Unbundled Government, 69-90, 2004 | 54 | 2004 |
| Investigating the economic determinants of the UK gender equality policy agenda C Annesley, F Gains The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15 (1), 125-146, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| What do bureaucrats like doing? Bureaucratic preferences in response to institutional reform F Gains, P John Public Administration Review 70 (3), 455-463, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| Pathways to politics C Durose, F Gains, L Richardson, R Combs, K Broome, C Eason Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report 65, 2, 2011 | 47 | 2011 |
| The impact of political leadership on organisational performance: Evidence from English urban government F Gains, S Greasley, P John, G Stoker Local government studies 35 (1), 75-94, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Implementing privatization policies in ‘next steps’ agencies F Gains Public Administration 77 (4), 713-730, 1999 | 44 | 1999 |
| Narratives and dilemmas of local bureaucratic elites: Whitehall at the coal face? F Gains Public administration 87 (1), 50-64, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| Metro mayors: Devolution, democracy and the importance of getting the ‘Devo Manc’design right F Gains Representation 51 (4), 425-437, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Can Cameron capture women's votes? The gendered impediments to a conservative majority in 2015 C Annesley, F Gains Parliamentary Affairs 67 (4), 767-782, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| Surveying the landscape of modernisation: executive agencies under New Labour F Gains Public Policy and Administration 18 (2), 4-20, 2003 | 32 | 2003 |
