| Keeping tabs on partners: The logic of delegation in coalition governments MF Thies American Journal of Political Science, 580-598, 2001 | 572 | 2001 |
| Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring FMC Rosenbluth Princeton University Press, 2010 | 342 | 2010 |
| A comparative theory of electoral incentives: representing the unorganized under PR, plurality and mixed-member electoral systems K Bawn, MF Thies Journal of Theoretical Politics 15 (1), 5-32, 2003 | 283 | 2003 |
| The cost of intraparty competition: The single, nontransferable vote and money politics in Japan GW Cox, MF Thies Comparative Political Studies 31 (3), 267-291, 1998 | 217 | 1998 |
| The causes of electoral reform in Japan SR Reed, MF Thies Mixed-member electoral systems: The best of both worlds, 152-72, 2001 | 210 | 2001 |
| Electoral reform and the fate of factions: The case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party GW Cox, FMC Rosenbluth, MF Thies British journal of political science 29 (1), 33-56, 1999 | 199 | 1999 |
| How Much Does Money Matter? “Buying” Votes in Japan, 1967-1990 GW Cox, MF Thies Comparative Political Studies 33 (1), 37-57, 2000 | 181 | 2000 |
| The importance of concurrence: The impact of bicameralism on government formation and duration JN Druckman, MF Thies American Journal of Political Science, 760-771, 2002 | 162 | 2002 |
| Welfare works: Explaining female legislative representation F Rosenbluth, R Salmond, MF Thies Politics & Gender 2 (2), 165-192, 2006 | 137 | 2006 |
| Electoral rules, career ambitions, and party structure: comparing factions in Japan's upper and lower houses GW Cox, FM Rosenbluth, MF Thies American Journal of Political Science, 115-122, 2000 | 132 | 2000 |
| Mobilization, social networks, and turnout: Evidence from Japan GW Cox, FM Rosenbluth, MF Thies World Politics 50 (3), 447-474, 1998 | 126 | 1998 |
| The end of LDP dominance and the rise of party-oriented politics in Japan SR Reed, E Scheiner, MF Thies The Journal of Japanese Studies, 353-376, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| Influence without confidence: Upper chambers and government formation JN Druckman, LW Martin, MF Thies Legislative Studies Quarterly 30 (4), 529-548, 2005 | 110 | 2005 |
| The consequences of electoral reform in Japan SR Reed, MF Thies Mixed-member electoral systems: the best of both worlds, 380-403, 2001 | 109 | 2001 |
| Party system dynamics in post-war Japan: A quantitative content analysis of electoral pledges SO Proksch, JB Slapin, MF Thies Electoral Studies 30 (1), 114-124, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| As a matter of factions: The budgetary implications of shifting factional control in Japan's LDP MD McCubbins, MF Thies Legislative Studies Quarterly, 293-328, 1997 | 65 | 1997 |
| On the primacy of party in government: Why legislative parties can survive party decline in the electorate MF Thies Parties without Partisans. Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 2000 | 62 | 2000 |
| When will pork leave the farm? Institutional bias in Japan and the United States MF Thies Legislative Studies Quarterly, 467-492, 1998 | 53 | 1998 |
| Changing how the Japanese vote: the promise and pitfalls of the 1994 electoral reform MF Thies How Asia Votes, 92-117, 2002 | 44 | 2002 |
| The political economy of Japanese pollution regulation F Rosenbluth, MF Thies American Asian Review 20 (1), 1-32, 2002 | 27 | 2002 |
