| Discursive institutionalism: The explanatory power of ideas and discourse VA Schmidt Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 11 (1), 303-326, 2008 | 4979 | 2008 |
| Taking ideas and discourse seriously: explaining change through discursive institutionalism as the fourth ‘new institutionalism’ VA Schmidt European political science review 2 (1), 1-25, 2010 | 2509 | 2010 |
| The futures of European capitalism VA Schmidt Oxford University Press, 2002 | 2131 | 2002 |
| Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’ VA Schmidt Political studies 61 (1), 2-22, 2013 | 1913 | 2013 |
| Democracy in Europe: The EU and national polities VA Schmidt Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 | 1552 | 2006 |
| Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume I: From Vulnerability to Competitivesness in Comparative Perspective FW Scharpf, VA Schmidt OUP Oxford, 2000 | 1511* | 2000 |
| Policy change and discourse in Europe: Conceptual and methodological issues VA Schmidt, CM Radaelli West European Politics 27 (2), 183-210, 2004 | 1158 | 2004 |
| Power through, over and in ideas: conceptualizing ideational power in discursive institutionalism MB Carstensen, VA Schmidt Journal of European public policy 23 (3), 318-337, 2016 | 853 | 2016 |
| Does discourse matter in the politics of welfare state adjustment? VA Schmidt Comparative political studies 35 (2), 168-193, 2002 | 802 | 2002 |
| Resilient liberalism in Europe's political economy VA Schmidt, M Thatcher Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 549 | 2013 |
| Reconciling ideas and institutions through discursive institutionalism VA Schmidt Ideas and politics in social science research 1, 76-95, 2011 | 542 | 2011 |
| From state to market?: The transformation of French business and government VA Schmidt Cambridge University Press, 1996 | 516 | 1996 |
| Putting the political back into political economy by bringing the state back in yet again VA Schmidt World politics 61 (3), 516-546, 2009 | 505 | 2009 |
| French capitalism transformed, yet still a third variety of capitalism V Schmidt Economy and society 32 (4), 526-554, 2003 | 488 | 2003 |
| Europeanization and the mechanics of economic policy adjustment VA Schmidt Journal of European Public Policy 9 (6), 894-912, 2002 | 469 | 2002 |
| 4 Values and Discourse in the Politics of VA Schmidt Welfare and Work in the Open Economy: Volume I: From Vulnerability to …, 2000 | 460 | 2000 |
| Speaking of change: Why discourse is key to the dynamics of policy transformation VA Schmidt Critical policy studies 5 (2), 106-126, 2011 | 428 | 2011 |
| From the ‘old institutionalism’to the ‘new institutionalism’ V Schmidt The state: Theories and issues, 98, 2005 | 372 | 2005 |
| Democratizing France: The political and administrative history of decentralization VA Schmidt (No Title), 1990 | 372 | 1990 |
| The new world order, incorporated: The rise of business and the decline of the nation-state VA Schmidt Daedalus 124 (2), 75-106, 1995 | 322 | 1995 |
