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Working Papers

2012

1. Income and Democracy: Lipset's Law Revisited
   IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations (11)

2011

2. Income and Democracy: Lipset’s Law Inverted
   OxCarre Working Papers, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford View citations (7)

2010

3. Conversations with Great Economists. Economic Theory and Economic Policies in Periods of High Turbulence
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE
4. Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes
   Working Papers, New Economic School (NES)
   Also in Working Papers, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) (2010)
   See also Journal Article Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes, Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell (2012) View citations (4) (2012)

2009

5. Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
   Agricultural Distortions Working Paper Series, World Bank View citations (15)
6. Political Predation and Economic Development
   TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) View citations (9)
   Also in IDEI Working Papers, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse (2009) View citations (9)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2005) View citations (5)
   Post-Print, HAL (2009) View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article POLITICAL PREDATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell (2009) View citations (9) (2009)

2007

7. Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa
   Scholarly Articles, Harvard University Department of Economics View citations (35)
   See also Journal Article Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2007) View citations (37) (2007)

2006

8. Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (8)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations (4)

2005

9. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (18)
10. Political Insecurity and State Failure in Contemporary Africa
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (7)
11. Political Reform
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (33)

2004

12. Democratic Transitions
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (91)
    See also Journal Article Democratic Transitions, American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons (2006) View citations (74) (2006)
13. Institutions and Development
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Institutions and Development, Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (2006) View citations (52) (2006)
14. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AFRICA
    Development and Comp Systems, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (18)
    Also in CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University (2003) View citations (27)
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2003) View citations (27)
    Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Papers, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government (1997) View citations (2)
15. Probing the Sources of Political Order
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (1)

2002

16. Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press (2005) View citations (14) (2005)

2001

17. Ethnicity, Capital Formation, and Conflict
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University
    Also in Working Papers, Chicago - Graduate School of Business (2000)
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University (1999) View citations (24)
18. Organizing Violence
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University
    See also Journal Article Organizing Violence, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International) (2002) View citations (50) (2002)
19. Political Competition in Weak States
    CID Working Papers, Center for International Development at Harvard University View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article Political Competition in Weak States, Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell (2001) View citations (26) (2001)

1996

20. INSTITUTIONS AS INVESTMENTS
    Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Papers, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Institutions as Investments, Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (1997) View citations (5) (1997)
21. TOWARD THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF TRANSITION
    Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Papers, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government View citations (3)

1995

22. Democratic Transition in Africa: A First Report on an Empirical Project
    Working Papers, Harvard - Institute for International Development View citations (6)

1994

23. Alternative Policies for the Control, of Air Pollution in Poland
    Working Papers, World Bank - The World Bank Environment Paper View citations (7)

1985

24. A Note on Taxation, Development and Representative Government
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article A Note on Taxation, Development, and Representative Government, Politics & Society (1985) View citations (73) (1985)
25. Political Power in the International Coffee Organization: A Research Note
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1984

26. A Note on the International Coffee Agreement
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
27. Agrarian Politics and Development
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1982

28. The Regulation of Rural Markets in Africa
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1973

29. The Policy Origins of Migration in Zambia
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Undated

30. A Note on Patterns of Market Intervention in Agrarian Africa
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
31. Agriculture in Development: A Coalitional Analysis
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article Agriculture in development: A coalitional analysis, Public Choice, Springer (1980) View citations (9) (1980)
32. Determinants of the Rural Exodus in Zambia: A Study of Inter-Censal Migration, 1963-1969
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
33. Ethnicity and Modernization in Contemporary Africa
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
34. Food Policy in Africa: Political Causes and Social Effects
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article Food policy in Africa -- political causes and social effects, Food Policy, Elsevier (1981) View citations (2) (1981)
35. People in Villages: Micro-level Studies in Political Economy
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
36. Political Science and Anthropology: The Study of Rural Politics in the Developing Areas
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
37. Pressure Groups, Public Policy and Agricultural Development: A Study of Divergent Outcomes
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
38. Rural Development in Kasumpa Village, Zambia
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
39. Some Conventional Orthodoxies in the Study of Agrarian Change
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
40. Some Core Assumptions in Development Economics
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
41. States and Political Intervention in Markets: A Case Study from Africa
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
42. The Centralization of African Tribal Societies
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
43. The Commercialization of Agriculture and the Rise of Rural Political Protest in Black Africa
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
44. The Issue Basis of Rural Politics in Africa
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Journal Articles

2018

1. Political institutions and economic growth in Africa’s ‘Renaissance’
   Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70, (2), 327-352 View citations (1)

2013

2. The New Institutionalism and Africa
   Journal of African Economies, 2013, 22, (4), 499-522 View citations (41)

2012

3. Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes
   Economics and Politics, 2012, 24, (2), 200-225 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes, Working Papers (2010) (2010)
4. The state of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
   International Area Studies Review, 2012, 15, (4), 323-338 View citations (13)

2010

5. A Global Model for Forecasting Political Instability
   American Journal of Political Science, 2010, 54, (1), 190-208 View citations (113)
6. A Review of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2010, 48, (3), 752-56 View citations (6)
7. Institutions and economic performance – Edited by Elhanan Helpman
   Economic History Review, 2010, 63, (1), 280-280
8. Political Institutions and Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 93, (2), 317-323 View citations (9)

2009

9. POLITICAL PREDATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
   Economics and Politics, 2009, 21, (2), 255-277 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Political Predation and Economic Development, TSE Working Papers (2009) View citations (9) (2009)

2008

10. The Logic of State Failure: Learning from Late-Century Africa
    Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2008, 25, (4), 297-314 View citations (8)

2007

11. Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa
    The Journal of Economic History, 2007, 67, (4), 917-943 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa, Scholarly Articles (2007) View citations (35) (2007)

2006

12. Democratic Transitions
    American Journal of Political Science, 2006, 50, (3), 551-569 View citations (74)
    See also Working Paper Democratic Transitions, CID Working Papers (2004) View citations (91) (2004)
13. Institutions and Development
    Journal of African Economies, 2006, 15, (1), 10-61 View citations (52)
    See also Working Paper Institutions and Development, CID Working Papers (2004) View citations (1) (2004)
14. Institutions, Governance and Economic Development in Africa: An Overview
    Journal of African Economies, 2006, 15, (1), 1-9 View citations (42)

2005

15. Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa
    British Journal of Political Science, 2005, 35, (3), 403-428 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa, CID Working Papers (2002) View citations (9) (2002)

2004

16. On The Politics of Property Rights by Haber, Razo, and Maurer
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2004, 42, (2), 494-500 View citations (4)

2003

17. Eyewitness to a Genocide by Michael Barnett. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, 215 pp., $25.00
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003, 22, (1), 158-159

2002

18. Organizing Violence
    Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2002, 46, (5), 599-628 View citations (50)
    See also Working Paper Organizing Violence, CID Working Papers (2001) (2001)

2001

19. Political Competition in Weak States
    Economics and Politics, 2001, 13, (2), 159-184 View citations (26)
    See also Working Paper Political Competition in Weak States, CID Working Papers (2001) View citations (21) (2001)

2000

20. Ethnicity and Development in Africa: A Reappraisal
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (2), 131-134 View citations (49)
21. The Analytic Narrative Project - Analytic Narratives. By Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 296p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper
    American Political Science Review, 2000, 94, (3), 696-702 View citations (4)

1998

22. The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Transition
    Politics & Society, 1998, 26, (2), 221-256 View citations (16)
    Also in Politics & Society, 1998, 26, (4), 603-642 (1998) View citations (17)

1997

23. Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay
    American Political Science Review, 1997, 91, (3), 699-704 View citations (1)
24. Institutions as Investments
    Journal of African Economies, 1997, 6, (3), 272-87 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper INSTITUTIONS AS INVESTMENTS, Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Papers (1996) View citations (3) (1996)

1995

25. The Politics and Economics of Policy Reform in Zambia
    Journal of African Economies, 1995, 4, (1), 115-43 View citations (26)

1993

26. A reply
    World Development, 1993, 21, (6), 1077-1081
27. The Politics of Economic Policy Reform: Review Article
    Journal of African Economies, 1993, 2, (3), 417-33 View citations (4)

1992

28. Adjusting to Reality: Beyond “State Versus Market” in Economic Development. By Robert Klitgaard. San Francisco: International Center for Economic Growth, 1991. 303p. $22.95 cloth, $11.95 paper
    American Political Science Review, 1992, 86, (4), 1108-1108
29. Ambition and Constraint: The Stabilizing Role of Institutions
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1992, 8, (3), 547-60 View citations (6)
30. Community Versus Market: A Note on Corporate Villages
    American Political Science Review, 1992, 86, (2), 457-463
31. Peasants and governments: An economic analysis: David Bevan, Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning, Arne Bigsten and Paul Horsnell, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989) pp. 349
    Journal of Development Economics, 1992, 38, (1), 267-268

1991

32. Risk and trade regimes: another exploration
    International Organization, 1991, 45, (1), 1-18 View citations (20)

1990

33. Cooperation by Design: Leadership, Structure, and Collective Dilemmas
    American Political Science Review, 1990, 84, (1), 133-147 View citations (25)

1988

34. Contra Contractarianism: Some Reflections on the New Institutionalism
    Politics & Society, 1988, 16, (2-3), 387-401 View citations (32)

1987

35. Political Behavior in the Coffee Agreement
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1987, 35, (3), 629-36

1985

36. A Note on Taxation, Development, and Representative Government
    Politics & Society, 1985, 14, (1), 53-70 View citations (73)
    See also Working Paper A Note on Taxation, Development and Representative Government, Working Papers (1985) (1985)
37. On the operations of the International Coffee Agreement
    International Organization, 1985, 39, (3), 553-559 View citations (1)

1983

38. Patterns of market intervention in agrarian Africa
    Food Policy, 1983, 8, (4), 297-304 View citations (6)

1981

39. Food policy in Africa -- political causes and social effects
    Food Policy, 1981, 6, (3), 147-157 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Food Policy in Africa: Political Causes and Social Effects, Working Papers

1980

40. Agriculture in development: A coalitional analysis
    Public Choice, 1980, 35, (5), 513-527 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Agriculture in Development: A Coalitional Analysis, Working Papers

1978

41. The Politics of Cultural Pluralism. By Crawford Young. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 560. $20.00.)
    American Political Science Review, 1978, 72, (3), 1145-1146

1977

42. Politicians in Uniform
    American Political Science Review, 1977, 71, (3), 1052-1054

Books

2009

1. The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (63)

2007

2. Making Aid Work, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (57)

1998

3. Analytic Narratives
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (155)
4. Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (19)

Edited books

2015

1. The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2014

2. Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (63)
3. Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (68)

Chapters

1998

1. Introduction to Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade
   A chapter in Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade, 1998