Smith, Alexander. (2013) Democracy begins at home : moderation and the promise of salvage ethnography. The Sociological Review, Volume 61 (Issue supplement S2). pp. 119-140. ISSN 0038-0261

Smith, Alexander and Holmwood, John. (2013) Sociologies of moderation. The Sociological Review, Volume 61 . pp. 6-17. ISSN 0038-0261

Smith, Alexander and Holmwood, John (2012) Sociologies of moderation : problems of democracy, expertise and the media. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118825020

Smith, Alexander (2011) Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives : banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance. New ethnographies . Manchester ; New York, NY: Manchester ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719079696

Smith, Alexander. (2010) Faith, science and the political imagination : moderate Republicans and the politics of embryonic stem cell research. Sociological Review, Vol.58 (No.4). pp. 623-637. ISSN 0038-0261