| Informal institutions and comparative politics: A research agenda G Helmke, S Levitsky International handbook on informal governance, 2012 | 4600 | 2012 |
| Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America G Helmke Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 | 1072 | 2006 |
| Courts under constraints: judges, generals, and presidents in Argentina G Helmke Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 682 | 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 | 579 | 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 | 292 | 2009 |
| Courts in Latin America G Helmke, J Ríos-Figueroa Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 275 | 2011 |
| Institutions on the edge: the origins and consequences of inter-branch crises in Latin America G Helmke Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 132 | 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 | 120 | 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 | 115 | 2019 |
| The origins of institutional crises in Latin America G Helmke American Journal of Political Science 54 (3), 737-750, 2010 | 94 | 2010 |
| The puzzling judicial politics of Latin America G Helmke, JK Staton Courts in Latin America, 306-31, 2011 | 93 | 2011 |
| 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 | 90 | 2011 |
| Steven Levitsky, eds. 2006 G Helmke Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America, 2006 | 90 | 2006 |
| The comparative study of split-ticket voting BC Burden, G Helmke Electoral Studies 28 (1), 1-7, 2009 | 89 | 2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 51 | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Public support and judicial crises in Latin America G Helmke U. Pa. J. Const. L. 13, 397, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Enduring Uncertainty: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina During the 1990s and Beyond G Helmke Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness, 139-162, 2005 | 46 | 2005 |
