* The Politics of the English Civil War (1969)
* Ideology and the Labour Movement (1981)
* New Philosophers: A Guide to the Current Thought in France (with Tony Wright, 1982)
* Government (with Tony Wright, 1984)
* The Left in Europe: A Guide to Party Programmes and Policies (with Michael Wickham and John Hitcock, 1990)
* European Politics (with Michael Smith, 1993)
* Social Democracy in Europe (1994)
* Contemporary Europe (with Michael Smith, 1996)
* The Political Economy of Corporatism (1996)
* Corporatism in Comparative Perspective (1997)
* The Third Way: A Third Path for Europe (2000)
* The Origins of the Welfare State in England and Germany (2002)
* New Perspectives in European Politics (with Robert Ladrech, 2004)
* European Social Democracy: A Reader (edited with Donatella della Porta, 2006)
* Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader (edited with Yves Sintomer, 2008)
* Globalization and Capitalism (with Yves Sintomer, 2010)
* Austerity and Its Discontents: Capitalism and the Political Crisis in Europe (2015)
* The Political Economy of Austerity (edited with Yves Sintomer, 2017)
* The Crisis of Neoliberalism: Welfare and the Politics of Austerity (2018)
Articles
* "The State Corporatist Theory of Politics: A Critique" (with Bob Jessop, 1980)
* "The Corporatist State and Neoliberal Austerity" (2014)
* "Why Austerity Won't Work: The Political Economy of Crisis and Resistance in Europe" (2016)
* "The Political Foundations of Austerity: A Genealogy" (2018)
* "The Future of European Social Democracy: What Can We Learn from the Past?" (2021)