| The politics of the Irish civil war B Kissane Oxford University Press, 2005 | 177 | 2005 |
| Explaining Irish Democracy B Kissane University College Dublin Press, 2002 | 97 | 2002 |
| New Beginnings: Constitutionalism and Democracy in Modern Ireland B Kissane University College Dublin Press, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| The illusion of state neutrality in a secularising Ireland B Kissane West European Politics 26 (1), 73-94, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| Nations torn asunder: The challenge of civil war B Kissane Oxford University Press, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Arend Lijphart and the transformation of Irish democracy H Bulsara, B Kissane West European Politics 32 (1), 172-195, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| The not-so-amazing case of Irish democracy 1 B Kissane Irish Political Studies Reader, 15-40, 2007 | 29 | 2007 |
| The marriage of state and nation in European constitutions B Kissane, N Sitter Nations and Nationalism 16 (1), 49-67, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Eamon de Valera and the Survival of Democracy in Inter-war Ireland B Kissane Journal of Contemporary History 42 (2), 213-226, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| Nineteenth‐century nationalism in Finland and Ireland: A comparative analysis B Kissane Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 6 (2), 25-42, 2000 | 23 | 2000 |
| Defending democracy? The legislative response to political extremism in the Irish Free State, 1922–l39 B Kissane Irish Historical Studies 34 (134), 156-174, 2004 | 20 | 2004 |
| Democratization, state formation, and civil war in Finland and Ireland: A reflection on the democratic peace hypothesis B Kissane Comparative Political Studies 37 (8), 969-985, 2004 | 20 | 2004 |
| After civil war: division, reconstruction, and reconciliation in contemporary Europe B Kissane University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| National identity and constitutionalism in Europe: Introduction. B Kissane, N Sitter Nations & Nationalism 16 (1), 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| Ideas in conflict: The nationalism literature and the comparative study of civil war B Kissane, N Sitter Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 19 (1), 38-57, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Victory in defeat?: National identity after civil war in Finland and Ireland B Kissane Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| The doctrine of self-determination and the Irish move to independence, 1916–1922 B Kissane Journal of Political Ideologies 8 (3), 327-346, 2003 | 14 | 2003 |
| Civil wars, party politics and the consolidation of regimes in twentieth century Europe B Kissane, N Sitter Democratization 12 (2), 183-201, 2005 | 12 | 2005 |
| From People's Veto to Instrument of Elite Consensus: the referendum experience in Ireland B Kissane Referendums and Representative Democracy, 17-33, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| On the shock of civil war: cultural trauma and national identity in Finland and Ireland B Kissane Nations and Nationalism 26 (1), 22-43, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
