| Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh B Ferman | 475 | 1996 |
| Governing the ungovernable city B Ferman Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985 | 150* | 1985 |
| When failure is success: Implementation and Madisonian government B Ferman Implementation and the policy process: Opening up the black box 39, 50, 1990 | 125 | 1990 |
| The challenges of agenda conflict in higher-education-community research partnerships: Views from the community side B Ferman, TL Hill Journal of Urban Affairs 26 (2), 241-257, 2004 | 118 | 2004 |
| The Political Hand: Policy Implementation and Youth Employment Programs. M Levin, B Ferman Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 5 (2), 1985 | 107 | 1985 |
| Violence through the eyes of youth: A photovoice exploration J Chonody, B Ferman, J Amitrani‐Welsh, T Martin Journal of Community Psychology 41 (1), 84-101, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| The fight for America's schools: Grassroots organizing in education B Ferman Harvard Education Press, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Racial Integration in West Mount Airy, Philadelphia. B Ferman, T Singleton, D DeMarco Cityscape 4 (2), 1998 | 33* | 1998 |
| The political hand MA Levin, B Ferman Policy Issues in the 90, 1985 | 33 | 1985 |
| Building the spatial community: A case study of neighborhood institutions B Ferman, P Kaylor Review of Policy Research 18 (4), 53-70, 2001 | 25 | 2001 |
| Educating For Democracy: Reflections from a Work in Progress B Ferman Journal of Political Science Education 8 (3), 231-250, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Chicago: Power, race, and reform B Ferman Big city politics in transition 38, 47-63, 1991 | 16 | 1991 |
| Dilemmas of innovation and accountability: Entrepreneurs and chief executives B Ferman, MA Levin Review of Policy Research 7 (1), 187-199, 1987 | 15 | 1987 |
| The right to the city and to the university: Forging solidarity beyond the town/gown divide B Ferman, M Greenberg, T Le, SC McKay The Assembly 3 (1), 10-34, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Youth Civic Engagement in Practice: The Youth VOICES Program B Ferman Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS) 14 (3), 45-51, 2005 | 13 | 2005 |
| Sloughing toward anarchy: The policy-making/implementation gap revisited B Ferman Governance: An international journal of policy and administration 2 (2), 198-212, 1989 | 12 | 1989 |
| The role of social justice frameworks in an era of neoliberalism: Lessons from youth activism B Ferman Journal of Urban Affairs 43 (3), 436-448, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Leveraging Social Capital: The University as Educator and Broker” B Ferman The Place That Loves You Back: Community and Social Capital in Philadelphia., 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
| The role of institutions in community building: The case of West Mt. Airy, Philadelphia B Ferman, P Kaylor Nonprofits in urban America, 93-120, 2000 | 10 | 2000 |
| The academy hits the streets: Teaching community-based research B Ferman, A Shlay Building community: Social science in action, 129-34, 1997 | 10 | 1997 |
