| Thinking the unthinkable in public administration: A case for spoils in the federal bureaucracy R Maranto Administration & Society 29 (6), 623-642, 1998 | 126 | 1998 |
| Beyond a government of strangers: How career executives and political appointees can turn conflict to cooperation R Maranto Lexington Books, 2005 | 120 | 2005 |
| How do we get them on the farm? Efforts to improve rural teacher recruitment and retention in Arkansas R Maranto The Rural Educator 34 (1), 2013 | 117 | 2013 |
| Why they choose and how it goes: Comparing special education and general education cyber student perceptions D Beck, A Egalite, R Maranto Computers & Education 76, 70-79, 2014 | 96 | 2014 |
| The politics of civil service reform DA Schultz, R Maranto Peter Lang Pub Incorporated, 1998 | 95 | 1998 |
| Small districts in big trouble: How four Arizona school systems responded to charter competition F Hess, R Maranto, S Milliman Teachers College Record 103 (6), 1102-1124, 2001 | 92 | 2001 |
| Politics and bureaucracy in the modern presidency: Careerists and appointees in the Reagan administration R Maranto Praeger, 1993 | 87 | 1993 |
| Radical reform of the civil service SE Condrey, R Maranto Lexington Books, 2001 | 74 | 2001 |
| Boys will be superintendents: School leadership as a gendered profession R Maranto, K Carroll, A Cheng, MP Teodoro Phi Delta Kappan 100 (2), 12-15, 2018 | 68 | 2018 |
| President Obama and education reform: The personal and the political R Maranto, M McShane Springer, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| The politically correct university: Problems, scope, and reforms R Maranto, RE Redding, FM Hess Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| School choice in the real world: Lessons from Arizona charter schools R Maranto, S Milliman, F Hess, A Gresham Westview Press, 2008 | 64 | 2008 |
| Cops, teachers, and the art of the impossible: Explaining the lack of diffusion of innovations that make impossible jobs possible R Maranto, PJ Wolf Public Administration Review 73 (2), 230-240, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
| Determinants of student and parent satisfaction at a cyber charter school DE Beck, R Maranto, WJ Lo The Journal of Educational Research 107 (3), 209-216, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| A short history of the United States civil service R Maranto, D Schultz University Press of Amer, 1991 | 56 | 1991 |
| A tale of two cities: School privatization in Philadelphia and Chester R Maranto American Journal of Education 111 (2), 151-190, 2005 | 54 | 2005 |
| Teachers’ attitudes and the success of school choice K Ferraiolo, F Hess, R Maranto, S Milliman Policy studies journal 32 (2), 209-224, 2004 | 53 | 2004 |
| Still clashing after all these years: Ideological conflict in the Reagan executive R Maranto American Journal of Political Science, 681-698, 1993 | 52 | 1993 |
| Comparing the roles of political appointees and career executives in the US federal executive branch GA Brewer, RA Maranto The American Review of Public Administration 30 (1), 69-86, 2000 | 50 | 2000 |
| Show them the mission: A comparison of teacher recruitment incentives in high need communities J Shuls, R Maranto Social Science Quarterly 95 (1), 239-252, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
