Access Statistics for James Alan Robinson

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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 1 1 19 4,807
A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1,454
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 1 3 20 697
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 99 0 0 17 262
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 0 2 14 730
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 0 3 127 2,685
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 1 2 573 4 8 44 1,650
Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 2 63 63 0 5 63 63
Africa's Latent Assets 0 0 1 35 2 3 19 73
An African Success Story: Botswana 2 5 31 2,883 5 26 223 10,744
Anti-social norms 0 0 1 32 0 0 26 96
Are Endowments Fate? 0 0 2 301 0 1 16 696
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 0 1 7 656
Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success 0 0 0 160 0 2 29 422
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 2 372 2 7 50 1,588
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 1 102 2 3 36 335
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 0 1 216 1 3 25 321
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 0 0 3 56 0 0 20 129
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 0 0 19 2,491 5 20 193 10,358
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 2 11 76 593
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 0 0 2 15 2 2 14 58
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa 0 0 4 78 0 3 36 136
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 1 1 7 108 1 4 72 355
Democracy Does Cause Growth 0 0 6 1,181 4 35 150 3,806
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 1 3 12 649 7 15 121 1,847
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 0 0 11 675
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 0 0 13 553
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 1 178 0 2 18 825
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 2 462 2 2 42 2,135
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 0 3 282 2 4 36 1,329
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 1 275 1 2 24 848
Endogenous Presidentialism 0 0 0 60 1 1 11 195
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy 0 0 0 4 0 0 22 63
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 0 280 0 1 22 518
From Education to Democracy? 1 1 3 540 1 3 38 1,521
Governance and Development 0 0 1 159 1 4 31 480
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 0 80 2 3 21 251
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 0 0 5 196 1 13 76 708
How Institutions Change Over Time 0 0 5 286 3 7 36 1,903
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 5 13 87 1,203 20 61 504 3,536
Income and Democracy 0 0 0 382 2 3 38 1,408
Income and Democracy 0 0 5 684 1 3 70 1,790
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 0 88 2 4 20 252
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 1 1 24 1,121
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 330 0 0 30 1,336
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 637 0 4 50 2,205
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 0 109 1 1 13 190
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 0 5 32 2,252 7 28 272 6,465
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 0 2 15 814 5 13 111 2,178
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 2 560 0 4 55 825
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 1 1 4 700 3 12 72 1,486
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 1 60 1 2 18 218
Interview with 2024 Economics Laureate James Robinson 0 0 16 16 3 6 32 32
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 46 0 2 26 102
Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 3 75 1 1 21 149
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 0 360 0 3 26 1,168
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 2 281 0 0 41 1,743
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 34 0 0 11 181
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 241 0 1 13 951
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 0 1 11 1,045
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 9 1 1 4 65
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 1 205 1 1 22 842
Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the Environment 0 0 0 1 0 0 15 3,249
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition 0 0 1 15 2 4 21 52
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 2 2 15 239
Nobel Prize Conversations podcast 0 1 18 18 1 3 23 23
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 0 83 0 3 17 129
Online Appendix: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 49 0 2 12 148
Paths to the Periphery 0 0 0 72 0 1 15 52
Paths towards the Periphery 0 0 5 110 0 1 28 117
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 1 1 9 610 2 5 77 1,616
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 1 1 2 206 2 4 49 779
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 1 441 1 4 19 910
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 0 127 2 3 15 200
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 1 1 10 296
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 1 2 2 83 1 4 12 298
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 2 684 3 4 29 1,727
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 66
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 1 1 2 514 2 4 25 2,053
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 294 1 2 17 757
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 0 171 2 2 19 502
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 0 58 0 2 65 175
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 1 5 2,060 2 6 169 7,179
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 916
Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters 0 1 3 3 0 2 12 12
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 1 139 0 2 19 653
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 0 0 2 251 0 2 21 425
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 1 316 3 5 32 691
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 2 41 0 1 30 232
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa 0 0 0 35 0 0 13 42
The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 6 43 0 0 22 39
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 2 5 19 1,968 7 36 139 6,610
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 3 404 4 11 61 2,542
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 1 135 0 1 35 1,230
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 0 0 4 45 2 2 28 68
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 0 0 5 201 1 3 53 433
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 0 2 144 0 6 27 258
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 0 2 19 168
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 53 0 0 20 117
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 132 0 1 42 245
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 0 172 1 2 31 542
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 0 0 10 263
The Need for Enemies 0 1 8 504 5 9 75 1,744
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 0 1 9 211 4 5 33 544
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 0 0 4 29 0 1 24 38
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 0 1 125 1 2 27 332
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 2 7 1,102 2 7 33 4,435
The Political Economy of Inequality 1 1 1 468 2 2 38 1,970
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 46 0 1 20 111
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 74 1 4 19 169
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 53 0 0 8 71
The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile 0 0 0 85 1 3 15 251
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 0 0 14 272
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 2 359 2 3 55 627
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 0 357 3 8 34 1,310
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 0 3 428 1 4 66 2,180
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 3 4 10 1,085 11 20 121 5,473
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 0 0 2 13 0 0 11 45
The Success of the Embedded State in England 0 0 16 16 3 4 14 14
The Weak State Trap 0 0 4 206 2 5 40 560
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 1 2 22 352
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan 0 0 0 91 1 2 22 284
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 0 36 0 2 14 158
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 0 1 10 1,249
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 0 2 12 172 1 4 67 798
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 0 502 0 3 26 1,514
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 49 0 0 11 193
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia" 0 0 0 75 0 0 9 346
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 90 0 0 17 283
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia�s La Violencia 0 0 0 56 0 0 9 323
When is a State Predatory? 0 0 3 153 0 3 36 2,634
Where Does Inequality Come From?: Ideas and Implications for Latin America 0 0 0 145 0 4 16 1,151
White Elephants 0 0 0 303 1 2 24 1,108
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 2 23 541
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 0 2 11 189
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 115 2 3 11 446
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 78 2 2 16 183
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 44 0 1 23 181
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 1 39 0 0 12 192
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 1 3 13 212
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 426 0 2 56 1,615
Total Working Papers 21 58 531 40,081 193 607 5,700 156,004
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Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Political Transitions 1 1 7 1,724 7 10 64 6,661
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 0 69 0 10 32 940
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 1 66 1 4 36 394
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 0 1 47 0 1 6 155
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 1 1 5 144 4 6 44 713
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 1 1 3 178 2 3 21 860
Democratization or repression? 0 0 1 179 1 1 27 541
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 149 0 0 17 520
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 0 0 4 120
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 1 1 11 69
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 1 4 298 0 7 40 1,027
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 0 2 81 0 3 31 250
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 0 0 2 142 1 1 37 676
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 1 346 1 2 31 1,123
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 0 1 1 100 2 3 13 302
Income and Democracy 0 0 3 759 5 7 58 2,460
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 0 1 12 771 2 40 144 3,088
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 0 2 6 238 4 11 97 950
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 0 0 6 61
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 3 4 15 893 5 8 152 3,632
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 0 1 11 296
La miseria en Colombia 2 2 4 185 6 11 63 1,580
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 2 351 1 1 19 1,162
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 1 1 2 172 1 4 22 906
Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt's paper 0 0 0 31 0 0 10 77
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions 1 2 10 475 4 12 85 1,860
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 1 1 4 494 3 5 48 1,535
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 1 1 2 19 4 5 37 186
Political foundations of the resource curse 2 6 23 475 15 24 94 1,437
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 0 1 1 54 0 3 16 363
Politician-Proof Policy? 0 0 0 18 0 1 8 143
Politique industrielle et développement: analyse en termes d'économie politique 0 0 0 34 0 0 6 109
Property rights and the political organization of agriculture 0 0 2 114 1 3 21 396
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 0 1 37 0 1 12 226
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 0 1 159 0 6 40 823
Rent appropriation and sustained growth 0 0 0 38 0 1 10 241
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 1 10 14 2,096 13 37 179 6,798
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 0 1 14 271
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 0 1 32 1 1 13 159
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 0 110 0 2 29 746
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 0 2 16 2,171
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 0 2 2 103 1 7 30 436
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 4 210 2 8 62 858
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 2 5 21 358
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 0 0 4 42 3 3 40 1,638
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 2 4 6 109 4 11 65 647
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 6 11 55 5,095 43 242 863 19,595
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 0 0 7 285 2 9 48 1,278
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 1 4 264 4 10 42 1,639
The Need for Enemies 0 0 1 57 0 2 16 252
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 2 9 54 3 10 55 296
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 0 1 11 295 4 7 61 1,009
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 48 0 1 17 357
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 1 413 2 3 31 1,557
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 0 0 6 1,570 3 12 124 6,138
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 2 6 30 623 7 26 142 2,439
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse 0 0 0 34 0 1 18 207
Theories of “bad policy” 0 0 1 46 0 0 27 157
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 0 30 0 2 14 264
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 1 1 10 134 2 8 110 837
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 0 1 9 109
White elephants 2 5 19 349 7 20 95 1,128
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 2 8 568 7 14 185 2,227
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 57 0 0 13 341
Total Journal Articles 28 72 310 21,871 181 641 3,712 89,794

Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 8 22 219 1,233
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 3 12 67 691
Total Books 0 0 0 0 11 34 286 1,924

Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Comment on "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth" 0 0 0 10 0 0 9 56
Governance and Development 1 3 7 150 1 6 51 606
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 1 1 5 105 1 6 89 2,159
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 8 22 162 2,309 37 156 917 8,823
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 0 0 2 85 0 1 19 231
Long-term consequences of population growth: Technological change, natural resources, and the environment 0 1 1 290 0 1 22 1,438
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 1 20 0 0 10 115
Total Chapters 10 27 178 2,969 39 170 1,117 13,428

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