| Party politics, civil society and local democracy–Reflections from Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou Geoforum 43 (2), 178-189, 2012 | 112 | 2012 |
| Accessing the state: Everyday practices and politics in cities of the South C Bénit-Gbaffou, S Oldfield Journal of Asian and African Studies 46 (5), 445-452, 2011 | 111 | 2011 |
| Are practices of local participation sidelining the institutional participatory channels?: Reflections from Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou Transformation: critical perspectives on Southern Africa 66 (1), 1-33, 2008 | 110 | 2008 |
| Community Leadership and the Construction of Political Legitimacy: Unpacking B ourdieu's ‘Political Capital’in Post‐Apartheid Johannesburg C Bénit‐Gbaffou, O Katsaura International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38 (5), 1807-1832, 2014 | 104 | 2014 |
| Do street traders have the ‘right to the city’? The politics of street trader organisations in inner city Johannesburg, post-Operation Clean Sweep C Bénit-Gbaffou Third World Quarterly 37 (6), 1102-1129, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| ‘Up close and personal’–How does local democracy help the poor access the state? Stories of accountability and clientelism in Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou Journal of Asian and African Studies 46 (5), 453-464, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Communities, the private sector, and the state: contested forms of security governance in Cape Town and Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou, S Didier, M Morange Urban Affairs Review 43 (5), 691-717, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Community policing and disputed norms for local social control in post-apartheid Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou Journal of Southern African Studies 34 (1), 93-109, 2008 | 62 | 2008 |
| Circulation of security models in Southern African cities: Between neoliberal encroachment and local power dynamics C BÉNIT‐GBAFFOU, S Didier, E Peyroux International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36 (5), 877-889, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Unbundled security services and urban fragmentation in post-apartheid Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou Geoforum 39 (6), 1933-1950, 2008 | 52 | 2008 |
| Police-community partnerships and responses to crime: Lessons from Yeoville and Observatory, Johannesburg C Bénit-Gbaffou Urban forum 17 (4), 301-326, 2006 | 47 | 2006 |
| Beyond the policy-implementation gap: How the city of Johannesburg manufactured the ungovernability of street trading C Bénit-Gbaffou The Journal of Development Studies 54 (12), 2149-2167, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| Unpacking state practices in city-making, in conversations with Ananya Roy C Bénit-Gbaffou The journal of development studies 54 (12), 2139-2148, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Claiming ‘Rights' in the African City: Popular mobilization and the politics of informality C Bénit-Gbaffou, S Oldfield The Routledge handbook on cities of the Global South, 281-295, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| In the shadow of 2010: Democracy and displacement in the Greater Ellis Park Development project C Bénit-Gbaffou Development and Dreams, HSRC Press: Cape Town, 200-222, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
| Party politics, the poor and the city: Reflections from the South African case C Bénit-Gbaffou, L Piper Geoforum 2 (43), 173-177, 2012 | 30 | 2012 |
| Introduction: the place of participation in South African local democracy C Bénit-Gbaffou Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 66 (1), i-vii, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| L’informalité politique en ville. 8 chercheurs et 9 villes face aux modes de gouvernement urbain C Inverses, M Morelle, S Jacquot, J Tadié, N Bautès, C Bénit-Gbaffou, ... L’Espace Politique. Revue en ligne de géographie politique et de géopolitique, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| La justice spatiale et la ville: regards du Sud P Gervais-Lambony, A Musset KARTHALA Editions, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| Exploring the role of party politics in the governance of African cities C Bénit-Gbaffou, A Dubresson, L Fourchard, K Ginisty, S Jaglin, A Olukoju, ... Governing cities in Africa: politics and policies, 14-41, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
