| Political parties in Africa: Ethnicity and party formation S Elischer Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 350 | 2013 |
| Ethnic coalitions of convenience and commitment: Political parties and party systems in Kenya S Elischer GIGA Working Paper, 2008 | 108 | 2008 |
| Do African parties contribute to democracy? Some findings from Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria S Elischer Africa Spectrum, 175-201, 2008 | 75 | 2008 |
| Measuring and comparing party ideology in nonindustrialized societies: taking party manifesto research to Africa S Elischer Democratization 19 (4), 642-667, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited M Bogaards, S Elischer Democratization and competitive authoritarianism in Africa, 5-18, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Autocratic legacies and state management of Islamic activism in Niger S Elischer African Affairs 114 (457), 577-597, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
| Can historical institutionalism be applied to political regime development in Africa? G Erdmann, A Stroh, S Elischer GIGA Working Paper, 2011 | 30 | 2011 |
| Niger falls back off track S Elischer, L Mueller African Affairs 118 (471), 392-406, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| After Mali Comes Niger S Elischer Foreign Affairs 12, 392, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| Governing the faithful: state management of Salafi activity in the francophone Sahel S Elischer Comparative Politics 51 (2), 199-218, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Contingent democrats in action: organized labor and regime change in the Republic of Niger S Elischer GIGA-German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Contemporary civil-military relations in the Sahel S Elischer OECD, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Political Parties, Elections and Ethnicity in Kenya S Elischer | 18 | 2010 |
| Defying the odds? Nigerien responses to foreign and domestic security challenges S Elischer OECD, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| Populist civil society, the Wagner Group, and post-coup politics in Mali S Elischer OECD, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| “Partisan Politics Was Making People Angry”: The Rise and Fall of Political Salafism in Kenya S Elischer The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 10 (2), 121-136, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Reassessing Africa’s new post-coup landscape S Elischer, BN Lawrance African Studies Review 65 (1), 1-7, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| After Mali Comes Niger; West Africa’s Problems Migrate East’ S Elischer Foreign Affairs 12, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Salafism and political order in Africa S Elischer Cambridge University Press, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Democratization and Competitive Authoritarianism in Africa M Bogaards, S Elischer Springer VS, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
