| The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors L Whitfield Oxford University Press, 2009 | 480 | 2009 |
| The politics of African industrial policy: A comparative perspective L Whitfield, O Therkildsen, L Buur, AM Kjær Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 413 | 2015 |
| ‘Change for a better Ghana’: Party competition, institutionalization and alternation in Ghana’s 2008 elections L Whitfield African affairs 108 (433), 621-641, 2009 | 236 | 2009 |
| Trustees of development from conditionality to governance: poverty reduction strategy papers in Ghana L Whitfield The Journal of Modern African Studies 43 (4), 641-664, 2005 | 153 | 2005 |
| The politics of industrial policy: ruling elites and their alliances L Whitfield, L Buur New Actors and Alliances in Development, 126-144, 2016 | 131 | 2016 |
| Negotiating Aid: The Structural Conditions Shaping the Negotiating Strategies of African Governments. L Whitfield, A Fraser International Negotiation 15 (3), 2010 | 128 | 2010 |
| What drives states to support the development of productive sectors? Strategies ruling elites pursue for political survival and their policy implications L Whitfield, O Therkildsen DIIS working paper, 2011 | 124 | 2011 |
| Introduction: Aid and sovereignty L Whitfield, A Fraser The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors, 1-26, 2009 | 119 | 2009 |
| Understanding contemporary aid relationships A Fraser, L Whitfield The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors, 74-107, 2009 | 113 | 2009 |
| Civil society as idea and civil society as process: The case of Ghana L Whitfield Oxford Development Studies 31 (3), 379-400, 2003 | 95 | 2003 |
| Competitive clientelism, easy financing and weak capitalists: The contemporary political settlement in Ghana L Whitfield DIIS Working paper, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| Negotiating aid L Whitfield, A Fraser The politics of aid: African strategies for dealing with donors, 27-44, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| The state elite, PRSPs and policy implementation in aid-dependent Ghana L Whitfield Third World Quarterly 31 (5), 721-737, 2010 | 78 | 2010 |
| Public‐service provision in clientelist political settlements: Lessons from Ghana's urban water sector M Hirvi, L Whitfield Development Policy Review 33 (2), 135-158, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| How countries become rich and reduce poverty: A review of heterodox explanations of economic development L Whitfield Development Policy Review 30 (3), 239-260, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| Turning points in African democracy AR Mustapha, L Whitfield Boydell & Brewer, 2009 | 67* | 2009 |
| Economies after colonialism: Ghana and the struggle for power L Whitfield Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 66 | 2018 |
| Developing a palm oil sector: the experiences of Malaysia and Ghana compared N Fold, L Whitfield DIIS Working Paper, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| Ghana: Breaking out of aid dependence? Economic and political barriers to ownership L Whitfield, E Jones The Politics of Aid: African strategies for dealing with donors, 185-216, 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Reforming foreign aid practices: What country ownership is and what donors can do to support it P De Renzio, L Whitfield, I Bergamaschi Department of Politics and International Relations, University College Oxford, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
