| The personal vote: Constituency service and electoral independence B Cain, J Ferejohn, M Fiorina Harvard University Press, 1987 | 2737 | 1987 |
| Democracy transformed?: expanding political opportunities in advanced industrial democracies BE Cain, RJ Dalton, SE Scarrow Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 | 502* | 2006 |
| Political participation of ethnic minorities in the 1980s CJ Uhlaner, BE Cain, DR Kiewiet Political Behavior 11, 195-231, 1989 | 479 | 1989 |
| The acquisition of partisanship BE Cain, DR Kiewiet, CJ Uhlaner American Journal of Political Science 35 (2), 390-422, 1991 | 420 | 1991 |
| Strategic voting in Britain BE Cain American Journal of Political Science, 639-655, 1978 | 407 | 1978 |
| The constituency service basis of the personal vote for US representatives and British members of parliament BE Cain, JA Ferejohn, MP Fiorina American Political Science Review 78 (1), 110-125, 1984 | 356 | 1984 |
| Congressional redistricting: Comparative and theoretical perspectives D Butler, BE Cain (No Title), 1992 | 315 | 1992 |
| Assessing the partisan effects of redistricting BE Cain American Political Science Review 79 (2), 320-333, 1985 | 256 | 1985 |
| The reapportionment puzzle BE Cain (No Title), 1984 | 205 | 1984 |
| Advanced democracies and the new politics RJ Dalton, SE Scarrow, BE Cain J. Democracy 15, 124, 2004 | 184 | 2004 |
| Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer? BE Cain Yale Law Journal 121 (7), 1808-1844, 2012 | 167 | 2012 |
| New forms of democracy? Reform and transformation of democratic institutions RJ Dalton, SE Scarrow, BE Cain Democracy transformed? Expanding political opportunities in advanced …, 2003 | 152 | 2003 |
| The legal status of political parties: A reassessment of competing paradigms N Persily, BE Cain Colum. L. Rev. 100, 775, 2000 | 149 | 2000 |
| Adapting to term limits: Recent experiences and new directions BE Cain, T Kousser Public Policy Institute of California, 2004 | 134 | 2004 |
| Democratic publics and democratic institutions RJ Dalton, BE Cain, SE Scarrow Democracy transformed? Expanding political opportunities in advanced …, 2003 | 125 | 2003 |
| Ethnic context, race relations, and California politics BE Cain, J Citrin, C Wong Public Policy Institute of California, 2000 | 115 | 2000 |
| Moralism and Realism in Campaign Finance Reform BE Cain U. Chi. Legal F., 111, 1995 | 110 | 1995 |
| Democracy more or less BE Cain Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
| Ethnicity and electoral choice: Mexican American voting behavior in the California 30th Congressional district DR Kiewiet, B Cain Available at SSRN 1156473, 1984 | 87 | 1984 |
| Malleable Constitutions: Reflections on State Constitutional Reform BE Cain, RG Noll Tex. L. Rev. 87, 1517, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
