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| Authoritarianism and the elite origins of democracy M Albertus, V Menaldo Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 315 | 2018 |
| Gaming democracy: Elite dominance during transition and the prospects for redistribution M Albertus, V Menaldo British Journal of Political Science 44 (3), 575-603, 2014 | 228 | 2014 |
| The middle east and north Africa’s resilient monarchs V Menaldo The Journal of Politics 74 (3), 707-722, 2012 | 202 | 2012 |
| Coercive capacity and the prospects for democratization M Albertus, V Menaldo Comparative politics 44 (2), 151-169, 2012 | 144 | 2012 |
| The institutions curse: Natural resources, politics, and development V Menaldo Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 138 | 2016 |
| If you’re against them you’re with us: The effect of expropriation on autocratic survival M Albertus, V Menaldo Comparative Political Studies 45 (8), 973-1003, 2012 | 131 | 2012 |
| Dictators as founding fathers? The role of constitutions under autocracy M Albertus, V Menaldo Economics & Politics 24 (3), 279-306, 2012 | 85 | 2012 |
| The fiscal roots of financial underdevelopment V Menaldo American Journal of Political Science 60 (2), 456-471, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Foreign aid, economic globalization, and pollution S Lim, V Menaldo, A Prakash Policy Sciences 48, 181-205, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Natural resources and democracy in Latin America: Neither curse nor blessing S Haber, V Menaldo The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy, 2012 | 40 | 2012 |
| Democracy, elite bias, and financial development in Latin America V Menaldo, D Yoo World Politics 67 (4), 726-759, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Does Oil Fuel Authoritarianism? S Haber, V Menaldo American Political Science Review 105 (1), 1-26, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| The political economy of autocratic constitutions M Albertus, V Menaldo, T Ginsburg, A Simpser Constitutions in authoritarian regimes, 53-82, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| Dealing with dictators: negotiated democratization and the fate of outgoing autocrats M Albertus, V Menaldo International Studies Quarterly 58 (3), 550-565, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| Capital in the Twenty-First Century—in the Rest of the World M Albertus, V Menaldo Annual Review of Political Science 19 (1), 49-66, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| The institutions curse V Menaldo Cambridge Books, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Rainfall, human capital, and democracy S Haber, VA Menaldo Available at SSRN 1667332, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| Rainfall and democracy S Haber, V Menaldo Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| The new political economy of natural resources in Latin America V Menaldo Latin American Politics and Society 57 (1), 163-173, 2015 | 16 | 2015 |
