| The politics of community building in urban China T Heberer, C Göbel Routledge, 2011 | 172 | 2011 |
| Uneven policy implementation in rural China C Göbel The China Journal, 53-76, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| Authoritarian consolidation C Göbel European political science 10, 176-190, 2011 | 102 | 2011 |
| Social unrest in China C Göbel, LH Ong Long Briefing, Europe China Research and Academic Network (ECRAN), 2012 | 98 | 2012 |
| The information dilemma: How ICT strengthen or weaken authoritarian rule C Göbel Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 115 (2013), 367-384, 2013 | 63 | 2013 |
| The politics of rural reform in China: State policy and village predicament in the early 2000s C Göbel Routledge, 2010 | 60 | 2010 |
| Social unrest in China LH Ong, C Goebel China and the EU in Context. Insights for Business and Investors, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| Social unrest in China: a bird’s-eye view C Goebel Handbook of protest and resistance in China, 27-45, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| Sustaining collective action in urbanizing China X Kuang, C Göbel The China Quarterly 216, 850-871, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| Regulations against revolution: Mapping policy innovations in China X Chen, C Göbel Journal of Chinese Governance 1 (1), 78-98, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| The political logic of protest repression in China C Göbel Journal of Contemporary China 30 (128), 169-185, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Ideokratien im Vergleich: Legitimation–Kooptation–Repression P Bernholz, W Bialas, L Fritze, J Gerschewski, C Göbel, U Grashoff, ... Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Die Responsivität autoritärer Regime D Lambach, C Göbel Autoritarismus Reloaded, 79-92, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| The policy innovation imperative: changing techniques for governing China’s local governors C Göbel, T Heberer, V Shue, P Thornton To govern China: evolving practices of power, 283-308, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| The impact of electoral system reform on Taiwan's local factions C Göbel Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 41 (3), 69-92, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Towards a consolidated democracy? Informal and formal institutions in Taiwan's political process C Göbel Informal and Formal Institutions in Taiwan's Political Process (August 8 …, 2001 | 25 | 2001 |
| Paving the road to a socialist new countryside: China's rural tax and fee reform C Göbel Politics and markets in rural China, 155-171, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| Beheading the hydra: Combating political corruption and organised crime C Göbel China perspectives 2004 (56), 2004 | 18 | 2004 |
| Government propaganda and the organization of rural China C Göbel Organizing Rural China–Rural China Organizing, Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books …, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| From bulletin boards to big data: the origins and evolution of public complaint websites in China C Göbel, J Li Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 50 (1), 39-62, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
