| Discourse theory and political analysis D Howarth Oxford University Press, 1998 | 1547* | 1998 |
| Deconstructing apartheid discourse AJ Norval Verso, 1996 | 496 | 1996 |
| Aversive democracy: Inheritance and originality in the democratic tradition AJ Norval Cambridge University Press, 2007 | 365 | 2007 |
| The things we do with words–contemporary approaches to the analysis of ideology AJ Norval British Journal of Political Science 30 (2), 313-346, 2000 | 170 | 2000 |
| Discourse analysis: Varieties and methods J Glynos, D Howarth, A Norval, E Speed NCRM, 2009 | 157 | 2009 |
| Trajectories of future research in discourse theory AJ Norval Discourse theory and political analysis, 219-236, 2000 | 146 | 2000 |
| Mechanisms and relations A Abbott Sociologica 1 (2), 0-0, 2007 | 124 | 2007 |
| Memory, identity and the (im) possibility of reconciliation: The work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa AJ Norval Constellations 5 (2), 250-265, 1998 | 122 | 1998 |
| Hegemony after deconstruction: the consequences of undecidability AJ Norval Journal of Political Ideologies 9 (2), 139-157, 2004 | 105 | 2004 |
| Open citizens' juries and the politics of sustainability H Ward, A Norval, T Landman, J Pretty Political Studies 51 (2), 282-299, 2003 | 83 | 2003 |
| Green criminology N South Routledge, 2017 | 82 | 2017 |
| Social ambiguity and the crisis of apartheid A Norval | 77 | 1994 |
| Democratic identification: A Wittgensteinian approach AJ Norval Political Theory 34 (2), 229-255, 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| Truth and reconciliation: The birth of the present and the reworking of history A Norval Journal of Southern African Studies 25 (3), 499-519, 1999 | 67 | 1999 |
| Practices of freedom: Decentred governance, conflict and democratic participation S Griggs, AJ Norval, H Wagenaar Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 63 | 2014 |
| Thinking identities: against a theory of ethnicity A Norval The politics of difference: ethnic premises in a world of power, 59-70, 1996 | 60 | 1996 |
| South Africa in transition: New theoretical perspectives AJ Norval, D Howarth Springer, 2016 | 57 | 2016 |
| “Writing a Name in the Sky”: Rancière, Cavell, and the possibility of egalitarian inscription AJ Norval American Political Science Review 106 (4), 810-826, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| Democratic decisions and the question of universality A Norval Laclau: A Critical Reader. London: Routledge, 140-66, 2004 | 45 | 2004 |
| What are the consequences of the'spatial turn'for how we understand politics today? A proposed research agenda D CARTER, J Pugh, D Thien, N Marres, D Featherstone, L Griffin, ... Progress in Human Geography 33 (5), 579-586, 2009 | 37 | 2009 |