| Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society M Dean Sage publications, 2010 | 9963 | 2010 |
| Critical and effective histories: Foucault's methods and historical sociology M Dean Routledge, 1994 | 1420* | 1994 |
| The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals): Towards a genealogy of liberal governance M Dean New York & London: Routledge, 2013 | 651 | 2013 |
| Governing societies: Political perspectives on domestic and international rule M Dean McGraw-Hill International, Open University Press, 2007 | 632 | 2007 |
| Governing the unemployed self in an active society M Dean Economy and Society 24 (4), 559-583, 1995 | 627 | 1995 |
| Risk, calculable and incalculable M Dean Soziale Welt 49 (1), 1998 | 508 | 1998 |
| Liberal government and authoritarianism M Dean Economy and society 31 (1), 37-61, 2002 | 473 | 2002 |
| Governing Australia: Studies in contemporary rationalities of government M Dean, B Hindess Cambridge Univ Pr, 1998 | 340 | 1998 |
| Foucault, government and the enfolding of authority M Dean Foucault and political reason: Liberalism, neo-liberalism and rationalities …, 1996 | 242 | 1996 |
| Rethinking neoliberalism M Dean Journal of Sociology 50 (2), 150-163, 2014 | 240 | 2014 |
| " A social structure of many souls": Moral regulation, government, and self-formation M Dean Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 145-168, 1994 | 225 | 1994 |
| Governmentality: magt og styring i det modern samfund M Dean Forlaget Samfundslitteratur, 2006 | 210 | 2006 |
| The signature of power: Sovereignty, governmentality and biopolitics M Dean Sage, 2013 | 179 | 2013 |
| A genealogy of the government of poverty M Dean Economy and society 21 (3), 215-251, 1992 | 174 | 1992 |
| Putting the technological into government M Dean History of the Human Sciences 9 (3), 47-68, 1996 | 168 | 1996 |
| Powers of life and death beyond governmentality M Dean Cultural Values 6 (1-2), 119-138, 2002 | 155 | 2002 |
| Administering asceticism: Reworking the ethical life of the unemployed citizen M Dean Governing Australia: Studies in contemporary rationalities of government, 87-107, 1998 | 152 | 1998 |
| Sociology after society M Dean Sociology after postmodernism, 205, 1997 | 115 | 1997 |
| Introduction: Government, Liberalism, Society M Dean, B Hindess Governing Australia: Studies in Contemporary Rationalities of Government, 1-19, 1998 | 112* | 1998 |
| Demonic societies: liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty M Dean States of imagination: Ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state 45, 2001 | 91 | 2001 |