| Just institutions matter: the moral and political logic of the universal welfare state B Rothstein Cambridge University Press, 1998 | 1866 | 1998 |
| All for all: Equality, corruption, and social trust B Rothstein, EM Uslaner World politics 58 (1), 41-72, 2005 | 1450 | 2005 |
| What is quality of government? A theory of impartial government institutions BO Rothstein, JAN Teorell Governance 21 (2), 165-190, 2008 | 1035 | 2008 |
| Social traps and the problem of trust B Rothstein Cambridge University Press, 2005 | 1028 | 2005 |
| The quality of government: Corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective B Rothstein University of Chicago Press, 2011 | 989 | 2011 |
| Vad bör staten göra?: om välfärdsstatens moraliska och politiska logik B Rothstein SNS förl., 2002 | 749 | 2002 |
| Making and breaking social capital: The impact of welfare-state institutions S Kumlin, B Rothstein Comparative political studies 38 (4), 339-365, 2005 | 739 | 2005 |
| Trust, social dilemmas and collective memories B Rothstein Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (4), 477-501, 2000 | 679 | 2000 |
| The state and social capital: An institutional theory of generalized trust B Rothstein, D Stolle Comparative politics 40 (4), 441-459, 2008 | 605 | 2008 |
| Social capital in the social democratic welfare state B Rothstein Politics & Society 29 (2), 207-241, 2001 | 578 | 2001 |
| Political institutions: an overview B Rothstein A new handbook of political science 133, 166, 1996 | 575 | 1996 |
| Why anticorruption reforms fail—systemic corruption as a collective action problem A Persson, B Rothstein, J Teorell Governance 26 (3), 449-471, 2013 | 524 | 2013 |
| Sociala fällor och tillitens problem B Rothstein SNS förl., 2003 | 494 | 2003 |
| Den korporativa staten: intresseorganisationer och statsförvaltning i svensk politik B Rothstein Norstedts juridik, 1992 | 457 | 1992 |
| Social capital, impartiality and the welfare state: An institutional approach B Rothstein, D Stolle Generating social capital, 191-209, 2003 | 393 | 2003 |
| Labor-market institutions and working-class strength B Rothstein Structuring politics: Historical institutionalism in comparative analysis, 33-56, 1992 | 379 | 1992 |
| Välfärdsstatens nya ansikte: demokrati och marknadsreformer inom den offentliga sektorn P Blomqvist, B Rothstein Agora, 2000 | 377 | 2000 |
| Creating political legitimacy: Electoral democracy versus quality of government B Rothstein American behavioral scientist 53 (3), 311-330, 2009 | 344 | 2009 |
| Quality of government: What you get S Holmberg, B Rothstein, N Nasiritousi Annual review of political science 12, 135-161, 2009 | 321 | 2009 |
| Introduction: social capital in Scandinavia B Rothstein, D Stolle Scandinavian political studies 26 (1), 1-26, 2003 | 278 | 2003 |