| The politics of community building in urban China T Heberer, C Göbel Routledge, 2011 | 183 | 2011 |
| Uneven policy implementation in rural China C Göbel The China Journal, 53-76, 2011 | 117 | 2011 |
| Authoritarian consolidation C Göbel European political science 10, 176-190, 2011 | 109 | 2011 |
| Social unrest in China C Göbel, LH Ong Long Briefing, Europe China Research and Academic Network (ECRAN), 2012 | 96 | 2012 |
| The information dilemma: How ICT strengthen or weaken authoritarian rule C Göbel Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 115 (2013), 367-384, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| The politics of rural reform in China: State policy and village predicament in the early 2000s C Göbel Routledge, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
| The political logic of protest repression in China C Göbel Journal of Contemporary China 30 (128), 169-185, 2021 | 49 | 2021 |
| Social unrest in China LH Ong, C Göbel China and the EU in Context. Insights for Business and Investors, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Regulations against revolution: mapping policy innovations in China X Chen, C Göbel Journal of Chinese Governance 1 (1), 78-98, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Sustaining collective action in urbanizing China X Kuang, C Göbel The China Quarterly 216, 850-871, 2013 | 48 | 2013 |
| Ideokratien im Vergleich: Legitimation–Kooptation–Repression P Bernholz, W Bialas, L Fritze, J Gerschewski, C Göbel, U Grashoff, ... Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Die Responsivität autoritärer Regime D Lambach, C Göbel Autoritarismus Reloaded, 79-92, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
| 10 The Policy Innovation Imperative: Changing Techniques for Governing China's Local C Göbel, T Heberer To govern China: evolving practices of power, 283, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| The impact of electoral system reform on Taiwan's local factions C Göbel Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 41 (3), 69-92, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Social unrest in China: a bird’s-eye view C Göbel Handbook of protest and resistance in China, 27-45, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| From bulletin boards to big data: the origins and evolution of public complaint websites in China C Göbel, J Li Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 50 (1), 39-62, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| Social unrest in China: A bird’s eye perspective C Goebel Handbook on dissent and protest in China, 27-45, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Towards a consolidated democracy? Informal and formal institutions in Taiwan's political process C Göbel Informal and Formal Institutions in Taiwan's Political Process (August 8 …, 2001 | 24 | 2001 |
| Semiauthoritarianism C Göbel 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook, Thousand Oaks, CA …, 2011 | 20 | 2011 |
| Paving the road to a socialist new countryside: China's rural tax and fee reform C Göbel Politics and markets in rural China, 155-171, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
