| Democracy in Africa N Cheeseman Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 513 | 2015 |
| Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya D Branch, N Cheeseman African Affairs 108 (430), 1-26, 2009 | 413 | 2009 |
| The Kenyan elections of 2007: an introduction N Cheeseman Journal of Eastern African Studies 2 (2), 166-184, 2008 | 343 | 2008 |
| How to rig an election N Cheeseman, B Klaas Yale University Press, 2018 | 298 | 2018 |
| Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective P Chaisty, N Cheeseman, T Power Democratization 21 (1), 72-94, 2014 | 263 | 2014 |
| Power-sharing in comparative perspective: the dynamics of ‘unity government’in Kenya and Zimbabwe N Cheeseman, BM Tendi The Journal of Modern African Studies 48 (2), 203-229, 2010 | 255 | 2010 |
| Decentralisation in Kenya: the governance of governors N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis The Journal of Modern African Studies 54 (1), 1-35, 2016 | 208 | 2016 |
| Democracy and its discontents: understanding Kenya's 2013 elections N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (1), 2-24, 2014 | 203 | 2014 |
| African elections as vehicles for change N Cheeseman Journal of Democracy 21 (4), 139-153, 2010 | 194 | 2010 |
| The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the bureaucratic-executive state, 1952–78 D Branch, N Cheeseman Review of African Political Economy 33 (107), 11-31, 2006 | 192 | 2006 |
| Parties, platforms, and political mobilization: The Zambian presidential election of 2008 N Cheeseman, M Hinfelaar African Affairs 109 (434), 51-76, 2010 | 176 | 2010 |
| Coalitional presidentialism in comparative perspective: Minority presidents in multiparty systems P Chaisty, N Cheeseman, TJ Power Oxford University Press, 2018 | 152 | 2018 |
| Digital dilemmas: The unintended consequences of election technology N Cheeseman, G Lynch, J Willis Democratization 25 (8), 1397-1418, 2018 | 151 | 2018 |
| Ethnopopulism in Africa: Opposition mobilization in diverse and unequal societies N Cheeseman, M Larmer Democratization 22 (1), 22-50, 2015 | 146 | 2015 |
| Ethnicity as a political cleavage N Cheeseman, RA Ford Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), 2007 | 116 | 2007 |
| Institutions and democracy in Africa: How the rules of the game shape political developments N Cheeseman Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 112 | 2018 |
| Zimbabwe: The coup that never was, and the election that could have been N Beardsworth, N Cheeseman, S Tinhu African Affairs 118 (472), 580-596, 2019 | 110 | 2019 |
| Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? N Cheeseman, K Kanyinga, G Lynch, M Ruteere, J Willis Journal of Eastern African Studies 13 (2), 215-234, 2019 | 109 | 2019 |
| The internal dynamics of power-sharing in Africa N Cheeseman Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects, 62-91, 2013 | 106 | 2013 |
| “No bourgeoisie, no democracy”? The political attitudes of the Kenyan middle class N Cheeseman Journal of International Development 27 (5), 647-664, 2015 | 92 | 2015 |