| Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy GA Donnell, PC Schmitter, L Whitehead Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1986 | 12468* | 1986 |
| Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives GA O'Donnell, PC Schmitter, L Whitehead Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1986 | 11472* | 1986 |
| Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Latin America L Whitehead, GA O'Donnell, PC SCHMTER Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989 | 10181* | 1989 |
| Delegative democracy? G O’Donnell Journal of Democracy 5 (1), 55-69, 1994 | 7040* | 1994 |
| In partial defense of an evanescent “Paradigm”: Debating the transition paradigm GA Donnell Journal of Democracy 13 (3), 6-12, 2002 | 5345* | 2002 |
| Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics. G O'Donnell Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, Cal, 1973 | 4536* | 1973 |
| Reflections on the patterns of change in the bureaucratic-authoritarian state G O'Donnell Latin American Research Review 12 (1), 3-38, 1978 | 4476* | 1978 |
| Horizontal accountability in new polyarchies G O'Donnell Journal of Democracy 9 (3), 112-26, 1998 | 4051* | 1998 |
| On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems: A Latin American view with glances at some postcommunist countries G O'Donnell World Development 21 (8), 1355-1369, 1993 | 3149* | 1993 |
| Illusions about consolidation G O'Donnell Journal of Democracy 7, 34-51, 1996 | 2869* | 1996 |
| Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Transitions G O’Donnell, P Schmitter Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 | 2267* | 1986 |
| Estado y políticas estatales en América Latina: hacia una estrategia de investigación O Oszlak, G O'donnell Redes 2 (4), 99-128, 1995 | 1576 | 1995 |
| Counterpoints: Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization G O'Donnell University of Notre Dame Press., 1999 | 1563* | 1999 |
| Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective S Mainwaring, SV O'Donnell, Guillermo A University of Notre Dame Press, 1992 | 1348* | 1992 |
| Corporatism and the question of the state G O'Donnell Authoritarianism and corporatism in Latin America 47, 1977 | 1329* | 1977 |
| Why the rule of law matters G O'donnell J. Democracy 15, 32, 2004 | 1147 | 2004 |
| Polyarchies and the (un) rule of law in Latin America G O'Donnell Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, 1998 | 1074* | 1998 |
| El Estado burocrático autoritario: triunfos, derrotas y crisis GA O'Donnell Editorial de Belgrano, 1996 | 967 | 1996 |
| Transitions, continuities, and paradoxes G O’Donnell Issues in democratic consolidation: The New South American democracies in …, 1992 | 917* | 1992 |
| Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in Comparative Perspective GA O'Donnell Univ of California Pr, 1988 | 917* | 1988 |
