| Understanding processes of ethnic control: segmentation, dependency and co–optation in post–communist Estonia V Pettai, K Hallik Nations and nationalism 8 (4), 505-529, 2002 | 208 | 2002 |
| Patterns of political instability: Affiliation patterns of politicians and voters in post-communist Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania M Kreuzer, V Pettai Studies in Comparative International Development 38, 76-98, 2003 | 172 | 2003 |
| Party politics in the Baltic states: Social bases and institutional context V Pettai, M Kreuzer East European Politics and Societies 13 (1), 148-189, 1998 | 125 | 1998 |
| Transitional and retrospective justice in the Baltic States EC Pettai, V Pettai Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 117 | 2015 |
| Explaining ethnic politics in the Baltic States: Reviewing the triadic nexus model V Pettai Journal of Baltic Studies 37 (1), 124-136, 2006 | 59 | 2006 |
| Estonia V Pettai European Journal of Political Research 43 (7‐8), 993-999, 2004 | 53* | 2004 |
| Estonia and Latvia: International influences on citizenship and minority integration V Pettai Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe 2, 257-280, 2001 | 51 | 2001 |
| Estonia: Conditionality amidst a legal straightjacket V Pettai, K Kallas Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe, 104-118, 2008 | 46 | 2008 |
| Emerging ethnic democracy in Estonia and Latvia V Pettai Managing Diversity in Plural Societies: Minorities, Migration and Nation …, 1998 | 45 | 1998 |
| Governance and good governance V Pettai, E Illing Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 8 (4), 347-351, 2004 | 42 | 2004 |
| Political development V Pettai, D Auers, A Ramonaitė Estonian Human Develop ment Report. Baltic way (s) of human development …, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Political parties and the study of political development: new insights from the postcommunist democracies M Kreuzer, V Pettai World politics 56 (4), 608-633, 2004 | 38 | 2004 |
| The Road to the European Union: Volume 2: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania V Pettai, J Zielonka MUP, 2003 | 37 | 2003 |
| Estonia: Positive and negative institutional engineering V Pettai Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe 1, 111-138, 2001 | 34 | 2001 |
| Party switching, party systems, and political representation M Kreuzer, V Pettai Political parties and legislative party switching, 265-285, 2009 | 33 | 2009 |
| The construction of state identity and its legacies: Legal restorationism in Estonia V Pettai Ab Imperio 2007 (3), 403-426, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| The Baltic parliaments: Legislative performance from independence to EU accession V Pettai, Ü Madise The Journal of Legislative Studies 12 (3-4), 291-310, 2006 | 32 | 2006 |
| The parliamentary elections in Estonia, March 2003 V Pettai Electoral Studies 4 (23), 828-834, 2004 | 32 | 2004 |
| The Baltics: Independence with divergent electoral systems E Mikkel, V Pettai The handbook of electoral system choice, 332-346, 2004 | 31 | 2004 |
| The parliamentary elections in Estonia, March 2007 M Solvak, V Pettai Electoral Studies 3 (27), 574-577, 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
