| Committees in congress SS Smith, CJ Deering CQ Press, 1990 | 688 | 1990 |
| Call to order SS Smith Brookings Institution, 1989 | 620 | 1989 |
| Politics or principle?: filibustering in the United States Senate SA Binder, SS Smith Brookings Institution Press, 2001 | 596 | 2001 |
| Committees in congress CJ Deering, SS Smith CQ Press, 1997 | 585 | 1997 |
| Party influence in Congress SS Smith Cambridge University Press, 2007 | 516 | 2007 |
| The American Congress SS Smith, JM Roberts, RJ Vander Wielen Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 347 | 2013 |
| Managing uncertainty in the House of Representatives: adaption and innovation in special rules SJ Bach, SS Smith Brookings Institution Press, 1988 | 338 | 1988 |
| Procedural contexts, party strategy, and conditional party voting in the US House of Representatives, 1971–2000 JM Roberts, SS Smith American Journal of Political Science 47 (2), 305-317, 2003 | 332 | 2003 |
| Who wins? Party effects in legislative voting ED Lawrence, F Maltzman, SS Smith Legislative Studies Quarterly 31 (1), 33-69, 2006 | 196 | 2006 |
| The politics of institutional choice SS Smith, TF Remington The Politics of Institutional Choice, 2000 | 182 | 2000 |
| Judicial review, the congressional process, and the federalism cases: An interdisciplinary critique PP Frickey, SS Smith The Yale Law Journal 111 (7), 1707-1756, 2002 | 181 | 2002 |
| Political goals, institutional context, and the choice of an electoral system: the Russian parliamentary election law TF Remington, SS Smith American Journal of Political Science, 1253-1279, 1996 | 173 | 1996 |
| Electoral institutions and party cohesion in the Russian Duma M Haspel, TF Remington, SS Smith The Journal of Politics 60 (2), 417-439, 1998 | 172 | 1998 |
| News media, candidates and issues, and public opinion in the 1996 presidential campaign D Domke, DP Fan, M Fibison, DV Shah, SS Smith, MD Watts Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 74 (4), 718-737, 1997 | 142 | 1997 |
| The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern US Senate SS Smith University of Oklahoma Press, 2014 | 115 | 2014 |
| Decrees, laws, and inter-branch relations in the Russian Federation TF Remington, SS Smith, M Haspel Post-Soviet Affairs 14 (4), 287-322, 1998 | 108 | 1998 |
| The dynamics of party government in Congress SS Smith, G Gamm Congress reconsidered 7, 245-269, 2001 | 103 | 2001 |
| The development of parliamentary parties in Russia TF Remington, SS Smith Legislative Studies Quarterly, 457-489, 1995 | 100 | 1995 |
| Managing the Senate floor: Complex unanimous consent agreements since the 1950s SS Smith, M Flathman Legislative Studies Quarterly, 349-374, 1989 | 92 | 1989 |
| Positive theories of congressional parties SS Smith Legislative Studies Quarterly, 193-215, 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
