| The political philosophy of needs LA Hamilton Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 259 | 2003 |
| Freedom is power: Liberty through political representation L Hamilton Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| Are South Africans Free? L Hamilton Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 | 58 | 2014 |
| A theory of true interests in the work of Amartya Sen L Hamilton Government and Opposition 34 (4), 516-546, 1999 | 39 | 1999 |
| Amartya Sen L Hamilton John Wiley & Sons, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Human rights: A very bad idea R Geuss, L Hamilton Theoria 60 (135), 83-103, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Intellectual Traditions in South Africa: Ideas, Institutions and Individuals P Vale, L Hamilton, E Prinsloo University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014 | 30* | 2014 |
| Human needs, land reform and the South African constitution L Hamilton Politikon: South Africa Journal of Political Studies 33 (2), 133-145, 2006 | 28 | 2006 |
| Human needs and political judgment L Hamilton New waves in political philosophy, 40-62, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| ‘Civil society’: critique and alternative L Hamilton Global Civil Society and Its Limits, 63-81, 2003 | 26 | 2003 |
| Power, domination and human needs L Hamilton Thesis Eleven 119 (1), 47-62, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Collective unfreedom in South Africa L Hamilton Contemporary Politics 17 (4), 355-372, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| Debt, democracy and representation in South Africa L Hamilton, N Viegi Representation 45 (2), 193-212, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
| Needs and agency L Hamilton Handbook of Economics and Ethics, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| The context and argument of the political philosophy of needs : symposium : the political philosophy of needs L Hamilton South African Journal of Philosophy= Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir …, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| Resistance and radical democracy: freedom, power and institutions L Hamilton History of European Ideas 44 (4), 477-491, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Representation and political theory A Dobson, L Hamilton European Political Science 15, 570-578, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| '(I've Never Met) a Nice South African': Virtuous Citizenship and Popular Sovereignty L Hamilton Theoria 56 (119), 57-80, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
| Pan Africanism in South Africa: a confluence of local origin and diasporic inspiration M Ndletyana, P Vale, L Hamilton, EH Prinsloo Intellectual Traditions in South Africa: Ideas, Individuals and Institutions …, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| Real Modern Freedom L Hamilton Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 60 (4), 2013 | 6 | 2013 |
