| Campaign warriors: Political consultants in elections JA Thurber, CJ Nelson Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 | 212 | 2001 |
| The secret life of Walter Mitty J Thurber Penguin UK, 2013 | 156 | 2013 |
| Untangled web: Internet use during the 1998 election DA Dulio, DL Goff, JA Thurber PS: Political Science & Politics 32 (1), 53-59, 1999 | 141 | 1999 |
| The years with Ross J Thurber, D Grace Little, Brown, 1959 | 134 | 1959 |
| Campaigns and elections American style: The changing landscape of political campaigns CJ Nelson, JA Thurber Routledge, 2018 | 129 | 2018 |
| Assessing the impact of bureaucracy bashing by electoral campaigns RS Garrett, JA Thurber, AL Fritschler, DH Rosenbloom Public Administration Review 66 (2), 228-240, 2006 | 126 | 2006 |
| Rivals for power: presidential-congressional relations JA Thurber Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009 | 118 | 2009 |
| Crowded airwaves: Campaign advertising in elections JA Thurber, CJ Nelson, DA Dulio Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 | 117 | 2001 |
| Fables for our times and famous poems illustrated J Thurber Oxford Text Archive Core Collection, 1991 | 111 | 1991 |
| Dynamics of policy subsystems in American politics JA Thurber American University, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, 1991 | 111 | 1991 |
| American gridlock: The sources, character, and impact of political polarization JA Thurber, A Yoshinaka Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 105 | 2015 |
| The Thurber Carnival J Thurber Penguin UK, 2014 | 103 | 2014 |
| Divided democracy: Cooperation and conflict between the president and Congress JA Thurber (No Title), 1991 | 103 | 1991 |
| Is sex necessary?: or, Why you feel the way you do J Thurber, EB White Blue Ribbon Books, 1929 | 100 | 1929 |
| The study of campaign consultants: A subfield in search of theory JA Thurber PS: Political Science & Politics 31 (2), 145-149, 1998 | 69 | 1998 |
| Effectiveness of negative political advertising RR Lau, L Sigelman Crowded airwaves: Campaign advertising in elections, 10-43, 2000 | 62 | 2000 |
| My life and hard times JG Thurber Good Press, 2021 | 59 | 2021 |
| Representation, accountability, and efficiency in divided party control of government JA Thurber PS: Political Science & Politics 24 (4), 653-657, 1991 | 55 | 1991 |
| Thurber: A biography B Bernstein, J Thurber (No Title), 1975 | 55 | 1975 |
| Political power and policy subsystems in American politics JA Thurber Agenda for excellence: administering the state. Chatham/NJ: Chatham House …, 1996 | 49 | 1996 |