| Organizing the presidency S Hess, JP Pfiffner Brookings Institution Press, 2002 | 564 | 2002 |
| The strategic presidency: Hitting the ground running JP Pfiffner University Press of Kansas, 1996 | 469 | 1996 |
| Political appointees and career executives: The democracy-bureaucracy nexus in the third century JP Pfiffner Public administration review, 57-65, 1987 | 279 | 1987 |
| The modern presidency JP Pfiffner (No Title), 1994 | 199 | 1994 |
| Power play: The Bush presidency and the constitution JP Pfiffner Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 | 192 | 2009 |
| US blunders in Iraq: De-Baathification and disbanding the army JP Pfiffner Intelligence and National Security 25 (1), 76-85, 2010 | 166 | 2010 |
| Did President Bush mislead the country in his arguments for war with Iraq? JP Pfiffner Intelligence and national security policymaking on Iraq, 59-84, 2018 | 112 | 2018 |
| The managerial presidency JP Pfiffner Texas A&M University Press, 1999 | 111 | 1999 |
| Decision Making in the Obama White House JP Pfiffner Presidential Studies Quarterly 41 (2), 244-262, 2011 | 102 | 2011 |
| The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents JP Pfiffner Texas A&M University Press, 2003 | 86 | 2003 |
| The president, the budget, and Congress: Impoundment and the 1974 Budget Act JP Pfiffner (No Title), 1979 | 81 | 1979 |
| The first MBA president: George W. Bush as public administrator JP Pfiffner Public Administration Review 67 (1), 6-20, 2007 | 78 | 2007 |
| The Contemporary Presidency: Decision Making in the Bush White House JP Pfiffner Presidential Studies Quarterly 39 (2), 363-384, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Establishing the Bush Presidency. JP Pfiffner Public Administration Review 50 (1), 1990 | 61 | 1990 |
| The White House office of presidential personnel BH Patterson, JP Pfiffner Presidential Studies Quarterly 31 (3), 415-438, 2001 | 60 | 2001 |
| The Contemporary Presidency: Organizing the Trump Presidency JP Pfiffner Presidential Studies Quarterly 48 (1), 153-167, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| Presidential decision making: Rationality, advisory systems, and personality JP Pfiffner Presidential Studies Quarterly 35 (2), 217-228, 2005 | 58 | 2005 |
| Marching in time: Alliance politics, synchrony and the case for war in Iraq, 2002–2003 A Doig, JP Pfiffner, M Phythian, R Tiffen Australian Journal of International Affairs 61 (1), 23-40, 2007 | 51 | 2007 |
| The president's chief of staff: Lessons learned JP Pfiffner Presidential Studies Quarterly, 77-102, 1993 | 51 | 1993 |
| The future of merit: Twenty years after the Civil Service Reform Act JP Pfiffner, DA Brook Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000 | 50 | 2000 |
