Access Statistics for James Alan Robinson

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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 1 3 30 4,805
A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 1,453
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 1 5 13 727
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 99 4 5 15 260
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 4 4 17 692
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 1 572 8 14 39 1,641
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 7 38 126 2,679
Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa 1 20 61 61 15 30 55 55
Africa's Latent Assets 1 1 1 35 2 6 16 69
An African Success Story: Botswana 2 10 29 2,876 24 75 192 10,685
Anti-social norms 0 0 1 31 1 4 36 93
Are Endowments Fate? 1 1 3 301 1 4 15 694
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 2 2 5 654
Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success 0 0 0 160 6 8 26 419
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 3 371 5 10 58 1,578
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 1 101 4 14 44 330
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 1 1 216 3 7 24 316
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 1 1 4 56 4 9 23 128
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 2 3 24 2,486 17 53 190 10,297
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 5 24 59 569
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 1 1 4 15 4 5 14 54
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa 0 0 4 78 3 5 20 120
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 0 2 10 104 3 26 75 340
Democracy Does Cause Growth 0 1 4 1,179 16 46 109 3,756
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 0 3 8 643 9 27 104 1,816
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 2 5 10 550
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 2 6 12 675
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 2 2 462 6 16 37 2,130
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 1 178 2 5 15 821
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 1 4 282 3 10 36 1,322
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 1 275 4 10 25 846
Endogenous Presidentialism 0 0 0 60 2 2 11 194
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy 0 0 0 4 2 6 32 62
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 0 280 4 14 25 517
From Education to Democracy? 2 2 2 539 7 11 36 1,515
Governance and Development 0 1 1 159 3 5 28 474
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 0 80 1 5 19 245
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 0 2 5 196 8 18 70 685
How Institutions Change Over Time 0 2 3 284 4 14 30 1,894
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 6 22 90 1,176 61 153 500 3,399
Income and Democracy 0 0 0 382 14 17 37 1,404
Income and Democracy 1 1 6 683 15 20 66 1,780
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 0 88 3 5 17 248
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 3 5 21 1,117
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 637 14 19 42 2,196
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 330 10 19 30 1,335
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 0 109 1 3 10 187
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 2 6 29 2,241 31 84 243 6,398
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 1 6 19 810 7 31 111 2,156
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 0 558 6 24 49 817
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 1 2 8 699 11 25 66 1,464
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 2 60 0 6 18 215
Interview with 2024 Economics Laureate James Robinson 1 1 16 16 4 5 25 25
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa 1 1 1 46 5 9 26 100
Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 1 3 3 75 4 9 16 144
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 1 1 2 281 6 11 45 1,742
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 2 360 5 7 25 1,162
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 241 2 4 12 949
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 1 1 34 3 6 11 181
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 1 5 12 1,044
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 9 0 1 4 64
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 0 204 6 9 21 839
Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the Environment 0 0 0 1 2 3 14 3,247
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition 0 0 2 15 3 5 20 47
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 3 6 11 235
Nobel Prize Conversations podcast 1 1 17 17 5 8 17 17
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 0 83 6 7 12 123
Online Appendix: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 1 49 1 1 11 146
Paths to the Periphery 0 0 71 72 3 4 47 51
Paths towards the Periphery 0 1 13 109 2 4 41 112
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 3 6 607 8 19 73 1,603
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 1 1 205 7 23 44 769
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 1 441 0 4 12 902
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 0 127 2 4 12 196
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 0 2 8 294
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 81 2 3 6 292
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 2 684 8 11 31 1,721
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 59
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 1 1 513 4 8 20 2,046
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 171 5 6 20 500
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 1 2 294 4 7 13 753
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 0 58 2 22 64 169
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 1 13 2,059 34 64 177 7,158
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 2 9 18 916
Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters 1 2 2 2 2 7 7 7
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 1 1 2 139 3 6 20 649
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 0 1 1 250 2 8 20 422
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 1 1 1 316 6 13 24 682
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 2 40 6 15 32 229
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa 0 0 0 35 3 4 13 41
The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution 0 1 42 42 1 3 36 36
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 2 5 21 1,962 23 44 118 6,566
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 5 404 11 20 59 2,528
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 1 1 1 135 11 14 35 1,227
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 0 0 3 43 7 9 22 59
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 0 0 4 200 6 18 46 420
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 0 2 144 1 8 21 251
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 1 53 4 8 20 115
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 4 8 17 165
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 132 17 24 37 238
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 0 172 6 15 27 534
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 0 2 9 261
The Need for Enemies 0 0 11 501 5 19 87 1,725
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 2 3 8 209 6 11 37 538
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 0 0 28 28 2 6 36 36
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 0 1 125 4 9 27 327
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 0 5 1,099 4 6 29 4,425
The Political Economy of Inequality 0 0 1 467 9 19 39 1,968
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 74 1 2 16 165
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 53 0 0 8 71
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 46 0 7 19 110
The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile 0 0 1 85 4 5 12 246
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 3 7 13 271
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 2 359 5 15 50 619
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 0 357 6 12 26 1,298
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 2 3 427 9 18 60 2,172
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 1 10 1,081 19 36 120 5,442
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 0 1 1 12 1 3 13 43
The Weak State Trap 1 2 8 206 1 14 37 549
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 5 7 22 345
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan 0 0 2 91 2 4 30 282
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 1 36 0 2 14 155
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 4 6 8 1,247
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 1 5 9 167 15 32 65 787
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 0 502 3 8 26 1,510
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 49 1 3 11 193
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia" 0 0 0 75 2 3 9 346
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 90 3 5 17 282
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia�s La Violencia 0 0 0 56 1 3 11 323
When is a State Predatory? 0 2 5 153 5 12 40 2,631
Where Does Inequality Come From?: Ideas and Implications for Latin America 0 0 1 145 1 2 15 1,147
White Elephants 0 0 1 303 2 6 19 1,102
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 2 22 537
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 38 4 7 11 191
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 44 0 4 23 179
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 78 2 4 14 180
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 2 4 9 186
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 115 1 2 9 442
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 1 3 11 209
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 426 13 23 52 1,605
Total Working Papers 37 136 676 39,940 778 1,810 5,413 154,796
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Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Political Transitions 0 1 11 1,723 10 17 60 6,646
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 0 69 0 2 22 928
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 1 1 66 0 6 24 378
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 0 4 47 2 3 15 154
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 1 1 7 143 8 13 42 703
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 0 1 3 177 0 6 27 857
Democratization or repression? 0 0 2 179 4 10 30 538
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 1 1 2 149 5 7 20 520
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 0 1 5 120
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 1 2 13 68
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 1 2 3 297 5 14 35 1,017
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 1 3 81 5 14 29 244
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 0 0 5 141 3 13 47 673
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 1 346 4 7 32 1,119
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 0 0 2 99 2 3 18 299
Income and Democracy 1 1 5 759 10 15 56 2,450
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 1 2 12 766 13 27 144 3,035
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 0 1 9 235 7 38 89 923
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 2 2 10 61
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 0 4 11 887 3 17 149 3,620
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 2 6 11 295
La miseria en Colombia 1 1 2 182 2 22 51 1,563
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 2 351 5 7 18 1,158
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 0 1 2 171 2 10 20 899
Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt's paper 0 0 0 31 2 3 10 77
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions 0 1 7 470 10 15 75 1,835
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 1 1 4 492 2 6 45 1,523
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 0 1 1 18 8 20 35 175
Political foundations of the resource curse 1 3 14 463 13 29 79 1,402
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 0 0 0 53 0 3 12 358
Politician-Proof Policy? 0 0 0 18 1 3 7 142
Politique industrielle et développement: analyse en termes d'économie politique 0 0 0 34 2 3 9 109
Property rights and the political organization of agriculture 1 1 3 114 3 6 18 391
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 0 1 37 2 2 10 224
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 0 1 159 6 12 36 814
Rent appropriation and sustained growth 0 0 0 38 2 4 11 240
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 2 10 2,085 18 40 157 6,741
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 4 8 12 269
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 0 2 32 2 7 13 158
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 1 110 3 3 38 743
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 3 4 15 2,167
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 101 1 4 27 428
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 1 1 5 209 3 5 63 847
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 6 9 16 353
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 1 2 4 42 9 15 34 1,631
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 0 1 4 104 7 15 58 627
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 5 17 72 5,080 53 172 680 19,223
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 1 1 10 285 2 12 42 1,264
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 3 3 263 4 11 35 1,625
The Need for Enemies 0 1 1 57 3 7 17 250
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 1 6 50 8 17 56 281
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 1 4 14 293 6 15 61 998
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 48 2 3 17 356
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 1 2 413 1 7 38 1,550
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 1 2 12 1,569 10 24 139 6,115
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 2 4 48 611 15 33 290 2,388
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse 0 0 0 34 6 9 21 206
Theories of “bad policy” 0 0 2 46 4 5 20 147
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 0 30 0 2 17 261
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 2 3 8 132 7 23 80 790
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 0 2 5 105
White elephants 0 5 18 341 3 18 75 1,092
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 1 5 564 4 47 169 2,201
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 1 57 5 6 16 339
Total Journal Articles 23 74 346 21,758 335 891 3,525 88,713

Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 20 27 63 674
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 26 52 235 1,197
Total Books 0 0 0 0 46 79 298 1,871

Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Comment on "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth" 0 0 0 10 3 4 9 55
Governance and Development 1 1 9 147 8 14 72 598
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 1 2 5 103 15 39 89 2,133
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 14 52 169 2,267 68 230 854 8,537
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 1 1 2 85 3 8 16 226
Long-term consequences of population growth: Technological change, natural resources, and the environment 0 0 0 289 9 13 22 1,437
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 1 20 2 4 13 115
Total Chapters 17 56 186 2,921 108 312 1,075 13,101

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