Access Statistics for James Alan Robinson

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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 1,454
A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 0 0 20 4,806
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 1 4 19 696
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 2 2 14 730
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 99 0 0 17 262
A Theory of Political Transitions 1 1 2 573 3 5 42 1,646
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 3 3 129 2,685
Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa 2 2 63 63 5 8 63 63
Africa's Latent Assets 0 0 1 35 1 1 17 71
An African Success Story: Botswana 2 4 30 2,881 10 35 226 10,739
Anti-social norms 0 0 1 32 0 0 37 96
Are Endowments Fate? 0 0 3 301 1 1 17 696
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 1 2 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 1 3 372 3 7 62 1,586
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 1 1 102 1 3 44 333
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 0 1 216 1 4 25 320
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 0 0 4 56 0 1 22 129
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 0 5 20 2,491 12 32 197 10,353
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 9 17 74 591
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 0 0 2 15 0 0 13 56
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa 0 0 4 78 3 16 36 136
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 0 2 6 107 2 7 72 354
Democracy Does Cause Growth 0 1 6 1,181 25 38 149 3,802
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 1 4 12 648 6 15 117 1,840
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 0 0 11 675
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 0 3 13 553
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 1 178 0 2 18 825
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 2 462 0 1 40 2,133
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 0 3 282 1 3 34 1,327
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 1 275 1 1 25 847
Endogenous Presidentialism 0 0 0 60 0 0 10 194
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy 0 0 0 4 0 1 30 63
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 0 280 1 1 23 518
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 2 539 2 2 37 1,520
Governance and Development 0 0 1 159 3 3 31 479
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 0 80 0 2 19 249
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 0 0 5 196 10 14 77 707
How Institutions Change Over Time 0 1 5 286 2 5 33 1,900
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 6 17 84 1,198 25 73 498 3,516
Income and Democracy 0 0 5 684 2 4 69 1,789
Income and Democracy 0 0 0 382 0 1 36 1,406
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 0 88 0 2 19 250
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 0 3 23 1,120
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 330 0 1 30 1,336
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 637 4 7 50 2,205
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 0 109 0 0 12 189
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 3 7 33 2,252 13 43 269 6,458
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 2 3 15 814 4 11 107 2,173
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 1 60 0 2 17 217
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 4 699 7 12 73 1,483
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 2 560 3 5 55 825
Interview with 2024 Economics Laureate James Robinson 0 0 16 16 1 3 29 29
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 46 2 2 26 102
Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 3 75 0 0 20 148
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 2 281 0 0 41 1,743
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 0 360 0 6 28 1,168
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 1 1 13 951
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 1 1 12 1,045
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 64
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 1 205 0 0 21 841
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 1 2 20 50
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 0 2 13 237
Nobel Prize Conversations podcast 1 1 18 18 2 5 22 22
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 0 83 3 3 17 129
Online Appendix: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 49 1 2 12 148
Paths to the Periphery 0 0 2 72 0 1 21 52
Paths towards the Periphery 0 0 7 110 0 4 31 117
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 0 1 205 2 6 48 777
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 1 8 609 2 6 77 1,614
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 1 441 2 6 18 909
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 0 127 1 1 14 198
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 0 1 9 295
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 1 1 1 82 2 5 11 297
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 2 684 1 2 26 1,724
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 2 5 14 65
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 513 1 3 23 2,051
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 294 1 3 16 756
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 0 171 0 0 18 500
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 0 58 0 3 65 175
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 1 1 7 2,060 2 15 173 7,177
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 916
Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters 1 1 3 3 2 2 12 12
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 1 139 1 4 19 653
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 0 0 2 251 1 2 21 425
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 2 41 1 1 30 232
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 1 316 1 5 30 688
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 41 43 0 0 31 39
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 2 3 19 1,966 23 33 138 6,603
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 5 404 4 9 62 2,538
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 1 135 1 1 36 1,230
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 0 1 4 45 0 4 27 66
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 0 0 5 201 2 5 52 432
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 0 2 144 4 6 27 258
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 1 2 19 168
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 1 53 0 2 21 117
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 132 1 4 42 245
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 0 172 1 1 32 541
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 0 1 11 263
The Need for Enemies 0 1 10 504 1 9 76 1,739
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 0 1 9 211 0 1 31 540
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 0 0 4 29 0 1 25 38
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 0 1 125 1 4 26 331
The Political Economy of Clientelism 1 2 7 1,102 3 7 32 4,433
The Political Economy of Inequality 0 0 0 467 0 0 36 1,968
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 2 3 18 168
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 2 2 14 250
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 0 1 14 272
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 2 359 1 2 53 625
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 0 357 4 8 32 1,307
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 1 1 7 1,082 6 13 117 5,462
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 0 3 428 3 6 65 2,179
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 0 0 2 13 0 0 15 45
The Success of the Embedded State in England 0 0 16 16 0 4 11 11
The Weak State Trap 0 0 4 206 3 3 39 558
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 1 2 22 351
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan 0 0 0 91 1 1 22 283
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 1 36 2 3 15 158
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 1,249
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 2 4 13 172 3 6 68 797
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 3 3 38 2,634
Where Does Inequality Come From?: Ideas and Implications for Latin America 0 0 1 145 3 4 17 1,151
White Elephants 0 0 0 303 0 2 23 1,107
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 0 3 23 540
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? 0 0 0 115 1 2 9 444
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 2 2 11 189
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 78 0 1 14 181
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 1 2 12 211
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 426 0 7 58 1,615
Total Working Papers 27 67 571 40,060 283 684 5,702 155,811
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A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 6 1,723 2 7 59 6,654
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 0 69 10 11 32 940
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 1 66 2 15 37 393
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 0 1 47 0 1 6 155
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 0 0 5 143 2 3 42 709
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 0 0 3 177 1 1 20 858
Democratization or repression? 0 0 1 179 0 0 26 540
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 149 0 0 18 520
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 0 0 4 120
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 0 0 11 68
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 1 1 4 298 2 8 42 1,027
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 0 2 81 2 5 32 250
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 0 0 2 142 0 0 39 675
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 1 346 1 2 31 1,122
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 1 1 1 100 1 1 12 300
Income and Democracy 0 0 3 759 2 4 53 2,455
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 1 1 13 771 8 44 157 3,086
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 2 3 6 238 4 14 94 946
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 0 0 6 61
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 0 1 12 890 1 3 149 3,627
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 0 1 11 296
La miseria en Colombia 0 1 3 183 1 11 59 1,574
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 2 351 0 1 18 1,161
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 0 0 1 171 2 5 21 905
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 0 3 10 474 5 16 85 1,856
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 0 1 3 493 1 5 47 1,532
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 1 18 1 5 35 182
Political foundations of the resource curse 2 7 21 473 6 15 82 1,422
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 1 1 1 54 3 4 16 363
Politician-Proof Policy? 0 0 0 18 1 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 21 395
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 0 1 37 1 2 12 226
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 0 1 159 4 8 40 823
Rent appropriation and sustained growth 0 0 0 38 0 1 12 241
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 5 10 17 2,095 15 37 175 6,785
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 1 2 14 271
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 0 1 32 0 0 12 158
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 0 110 1 3 30 746
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 2 2 17 2,171
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 2 2 2 103 4 7 30 435
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 4 210 4 8 62 856
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 2 3 19 356
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 0 0 4 42 0 0 37 1,635
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 1 2 6 107 6 13 65 643
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 2 8 70 5,089 163 276 883 19,552
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 0 0 7 285 5 8 48 1,276
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 1 1 4 264 3 8 40 1,635
The Need for Enemies 0 0 1 57 2 2 17 252
The Political Economy of Clientelism 1 2 9 54 3 9 54 293
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 0 1 11 295 2 4 58 1,005
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 48 1 1 17 357
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 1 413 1 3 32 1,555
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 0 0 6 1,570 7 16 124 6,135
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 2 7 28 621 11 33 141 2,432
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse 0 0 0 34 1 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 1 2 14 264
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 1 9 133 3 40 116 835
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 0 2 9 109
White elephants 1 4 19 347 7 21 94 1,121
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 2 8 568 3 10 180 2,220
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 57 0 2 14 341
Total Journal Articles 23 61 317 21,843 312 710 3,700 89,613

Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 5 21 220 1,225
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 8 11 65 688
Total Books 0 0 0 0 13 32 285 1,913

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 2 2 9 149 5 5 61 605
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 4 104 1 15 90 2,158
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 10 26 160 2,301 50 184 925 8,786
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 0 0 2 85 1 5 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 11 115
Total Chapters 12 29 177 2,959 57 210 1,137 13,389

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