| Collision and collusion: The strange case of Western aid to Eastern Europe JR Wedel St. Martin's Press, 2015 | 1609 | 2015 |
| Toward an anthropology of public policy JR Wedel, C Shore, G Feldman, S Lathrop The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 600 (1 …, 2005 | 836 | 2005 |
| Shadow elite: How the world's new power brokers undermine democracy, government, and the free market JR Wedel Basic Books, 2009 | 538 | 2009 |
| The Private Poland JR Wedel Facts on File, 1986 | 401 | 1986 |
| Surviving Post-Socialism: Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union JR Wedel Europe-Asia Studies 50 (7), 1277, 1998 | 324* | 1998 |
| The unplanned society: Poland during and after communism JR Wedel, J Wedel Columbia University Press, 1992 | 230 | 1992 |
| Clans, cliques and captured states: rethinking ‘transition’in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union JR Wedel Journal of International Development: The Journal of the Development Studies …, 2003 | 154 | 2003 |
| Rethinking corruption in an age of ambiguity JR Wedel Annual Review of Law and Social Science 8, 453-498, 2012 | 123 | 2012 |
| Why an anthropology of public policy? JR Wedel, G Feldman Anthropology Today 21 (1), 1-2, 2005 | 111 | 2005 |
| From power elites to influence elites: Resetting elite studies for the 21st century JR Wedel Theory, Culture & Society 34 (5-6), 153-178, 2017 | 108 | 2017 |
| Second thoughts from the second world: interpreting aid in post-communist Eastern Europe GW Creed, JR Wedel Human Organization, 253-264, 1997 | 82 | 1997 |
| Unaccountable: How elite power brokers corrupt our finances, freedom, and security JR Wedel Pegasus Books, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| The Harvard boys do Russia. JR Wedel Nation 266 (20), 11-15, 1998 | 64 | 1998 |
| Tainted transactions: Harvard, the Chubais clan and Russia's ruin JR Wedel The National Interest, 23-34, 2000 | 50* | 2000 |
| USAID to Central and Eastern Europe, 1990–1994: an analysis of aid models and responses J Wedel East-Central European economies in transition, 299-335, 1995 | 47* | 1995 |
| " Studying Through" a Globalizing World. Building Method through Aidnographies JR Wedel Occasional Paper, 149-174, 2014 | 45* | 2014 |
| Clique-Run Organizations and US Economic Aid J Wedel Demokratizatsiya 4, 571-602, 1996 | 44 | 1996 |
| Dirty togetherness: institutional nomads, networks, and the state-private interface in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union JR WEDEL Polish Sociological Review, 139-159, 2003 | 43 | 2003 |
| US Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc JR Wedel The Independent Review 4 (3), 393-418, 2000 | 40 | 2000 |
| Blurring the state-private divide: flex organisations and the decline of accountability JR Wedel Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict, 217-235, 2004 | 38 | 2004 |
