| Capitalising culture: Liverpool 2008 P Jones, S Wilks-Heeg 1 Local economy 19 (4), 341-360, 2004 | 259 | 2004 |
| Local government from Thatcher to Blair: The politics of creative autonomy HHP Atkinson, S Wilks-Heeg (No Title), 2000 | 143 | 2000 |
| Business, government and the business of urban governance A Harding, S Wilks-Heeg, M Hutchins Urban Studies 37 (5-6), 975-994, 2000 | 116 | 2000 |
| Cultural policy and urban regeneration: a special edition of local economy S Wilks-Heeg, P North Local economy 19 (4), 305-311, 2004 | 96 | 2004 |
| 2. From World City to Pariah City? Liverpool and the Global Economy, 1850-2000¹ S Wilks-Heeg Reinventing the City?: Liverpool in Comparative Perspective, 36, 2003 | 93 | 2003 |
| How Democratic is the UK? The 2012 Audit S Wilks-Heeg Political Insight 3 (2), 8-11, 2012 | 74 | 2012 |
| Class compromise and the international economy: the rise and fall of Swedish social democracy S Wilks Capital & Class 20 (1), 89-111, 1996 | 59 | 1996 |
| Urban experiments limited revisited: urban policy comes full circle? S Wilks-Heeg Urban Studies 33 (8), 1263-1279, 1996 | 58 | 1996 |
| 'Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern' S Wilks-Heeg Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Regional Development Agencies and English regionalisation: the question of accountability A Harding, S Wilks-Heeg, M Hutchins Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 17 (6), 669-683, 1999 | 50 | 1999 |
| The canary in a coalmine? Explaining the emergence of the British National Party in English local politics S Wilks-Heeg Parliamentary Affairs 62 (3), 377-398, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| Treating voters as an afterthought? The legacies of a decade of electoral modernisation in the United Kingdom S Wilks‐Heeg The Political Quarterly 80 (1), 101-110, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| Britain and Europe: An awkward partner or an awkward State? S Wilks Politics 16 (3), 159-165, 1996 | 40 | 1996 |
| Metropolitan regions in the face of the European dimension S Wilks-Heeg, B Perry, A Harding Metropolitan governance and spatial planning: comparative case studies of …, 2003 | 34 | 2003 |
| New Labour and the reform of English local government, 1997–2007: Privatizing the parts that conservative governments could not reach? S Wilks-Heeg Planning, Practice & Research 24 (1), 23-39, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Whose town is it anyway S Wilks-Heeg, S Clayton The state of local democracy in two northern towns, York, Joseph Roundtree …, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Reinventing cities in a restructuring region? The rhetoric and reality of renaissance in Liverpool and Manchester A Harding, I Deas, R Evans, S Wilks-Heeg City matters, 33-50, 2004 | 29 | 2004 |
| Explaining electoral fraud in an advanced democracy: Fraud vulnerabilities, opportunities and facilitating mechanisms in British elections E Hill, M Sobolewska, S Wilks-Heeg, M Borkowska The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 19 (4), 772-789, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Economy, equity or empowerment? New Labour, communities and urban policy evaluation S Wilks-Heeg Urban renaissance?, 205-220, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| Mainstreaming regeneration: a review of policy over the last thirty years S Wilks-Heeg Local Government Association, 2000 | 22 | 2000 |
