| Informal institutions and comparative politics: A research agenda G Helmke, S Levitsky International handbook on informal governance, 2012 | 4755 | 2012 |
| Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America G Helmke Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 | 1100 | 2006 |
| Courts under constraints: judges, generals, and presidents in Argentina G Helmke Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 697 | 2012 |
| The logic of strategic defection: Court–executive relations in Argentina under dictatorship and democracy G Helmke American Political Science Review 96 (2), 291-303, 2002 | 588 | 2002 |
| Regimes and the rule of law: Judicial independence in comparative perspective G Helmke, F Rosenbluth Annual Review of Political Science 12 (1), 345-366, 2009 | 314 | 2009 |
| Courts in Latin America G Helmke, J Ríos-Figueroa Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 281 | 2011 |
| Institutions on the edge: the origins and consequences of inter-branch crises in Latin America G Helmke Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 140 | 2017 |
| Who will defend democracy? Evaluating tradeoffs in candidate support among partisan donors and voters J Carey, K Clayton, G Helmke, B Nyhan, M Sanders, S Stokes Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 32 (1), 230-245, 2022 | 134 | 2022 |
| Searching for bright lines in the Trump presidency JM Carey, G Helmke, B Nyhan, M Sanders, S Stokes Perspectives on Politics 17 (3), 699-718, 2019 | 125 | 2019 |
| The origins of institutional crises in Latin America G Helmke American Journal of Political Science 54 (3), 737-750, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| The puzzling judicial politics of Latin America G Helmke, JK Staton Courts in Latin America, 306-31, 2011 | 98 | 2011 |
| The comparative study of split-ticket voting BC Burden, G Helmke Electoral Studies 28 (1), 1-7, 2009 | 94 | 2009 |
| Faithful servants of the regime D Brinks, G Helmke, J Ríos-Figueroa Gretchen Helmke y Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Courts in Latin America, 128-153, 2011 | 92 | 2011 |
| Steven Levitsky, eds. 2006 G Helmke Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America, 2006 | 92 | 2006 |
| Inequality under democracy: explaining the left decade in Latin America A Debs, G Helmke Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5 (3), 209-241, 2010 | 72 | 2010 |
| Modeling motivations: A method for inferring judicial goals from behavior G Helmke, MS Sanders The Journal of politics 68 (4), 867-878, 2006 | 61 | 2006 |
| Democracy by deterrence: Norms, constitutions, and electoral tilting G Helmke, M Kroeger, J Paine American Journal of Political Science 66 (2), 434-450, 2022 | 55 | 2022 |
| Power broker, policy maker, or rights protector D Kapiszewski, G Helmke, J RIOS-FIGUEROA HELMKE, Gretchen; RIOS-FIGUEROA, Julio. Courts in Latin America. Sl …, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| Public support and judicial crises in Latin America G Helmke U. Pa. J. Const. L. 13, 397, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Checks and balances by other means: Strategic defection and Argentina's Supreme Court in the 1990s G Helmke Comparative Politics, 213-230, 2003 | 49 | 2003 |
