Access Statistics for James Alan Robinson

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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 0 2 26 4,806
A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 1,453
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 0 2 14 728
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 99 0 6 17 262
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 2 6 18 694
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 1 572 1 9 39 1,642
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 0 10 127 2,682
Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 1 61 61 3 18 58 58
Africa's Latent Assets 0 1 1 35 0 3 16 70
An African Success Story: Botswana 1 4 29 2,878 14 57 210 10,718
Anti-social norms 0 1 2 32 0 4 38 96
Are Endowments Fate? 0 1 3 301 0 2 16 695
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 1 3 6 655
Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success 0 0 0 160 0 7 27 420
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 1 1 2 102 2 6 45 332
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 1 1 3 372 2 8 59 1,581
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 0 1 216 2 5 23 318
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 0 1 4 56 1 5 23 129
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 5 7 24 2,491 17 58 199 10,338
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 8 18 68 582
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 0 1 4 15 0 6 16 56
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa 0 0 4 78 13 16 33 133
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 2 3 8 107 4 14 74 351
Democracy Does Cause Growth 1 2 6 1,181 7 31 122 3,771
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 2 3 11 646 7 25 117 1,832
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 3 5 13 553
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 0 2 11 675
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 1 178 0 4 16 823
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 2 462 1 9 40 2,133
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 0 4 282 1 6 35 1,325
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 1 275 0 4 25 846
Endogenous Presidentialism 0 0 0 60 0 2 11 194
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy 0 0 0 4 1 3 33 63
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 0 280 0 4 24 517
From Education to Democracy? 0 2 2 539 0 10 37 1,518
Governance and Development 0 0 1 159 0 5 28 476
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 0 80 1 4 22 248
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 0 0 5 196 2 18 72 695
How Institutions Change Over Time 1 2 5 286 1 6 30 1,896
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 9 20 91 1,190 32 137 510 3,475
Income and Democracy 0 2 5 684 2 22 69 1,787
Income and Democracy 0 0 0 382 0 15 38 1,405
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 0 88 0 3 17 248
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 3 6 24 1,120
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 637 3 19 46 2,201
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 330 1 11 31 1,336
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 0 109 0 3 12 189
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 2 8 32 2,247 22 70 264 6,437
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 1 3 17 812 3 16 107 2,165
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 1 6 699 3 21 68 1,474
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 1 60 1 1 17 216
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 2 2 560 1 10 52 821
Interview with 2024 Economics Laureate James Robinson 0 1 16 16 0 5 26 26
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 1 46 0 5 26 100
Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 3 75 0 8 20 148
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 0 360 3 8 25 1,165
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 1 2 281 0 7 43 1,743
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 34 0 3 11 181
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 241 0 3 12 950
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 0 1 11 1,044
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 64
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 1 1 205 0 8 21 841
Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the Environment 0 0 0 1 0 4 16 3,249
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition 0 0 1 15 0 4 20 48
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 2 5 13 237
Nobel Prize Conversations podcast 0 1 17 17 3 8 20 20
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 0 83 0 9 15 126
Online Appendix: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 1 49 0 1 11 146
Paths to the Periphery 0 0 4 72 0 3 25 51
Paths towards the Periphery 0 1 10 110 3 6 37 116
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 0 1 205 4 13 48 775
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 1 2 8 609 3 16 75 1,611
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 1 441 3 4 15 906
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 0 127 0 3 13 197
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 1 1 9 295
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 81 2 4 8 294
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 2 684 1 10 26 1,723
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 61
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 513 1 7 23 2,049
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 1 171 0 5 19 500
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 294 2 6 15 755
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 0 58 1 6 66 173
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 0 7 2,059 11 49 175 7,173
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 916
Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters 0 1 2 2 0 5 10 10
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 1 1 139 2 5 19 651
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 0 1 2 251 0 3 19 423
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 1 316 3 10 28 686
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 2 41 0 8 30 231
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa 0 0 0 35 0 4 14 42
The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution 0 1 43 43 0 4 39 39
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 0 3 17 1,963 4 31 113 6,574
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 5 404 2 14 58 2,531
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 1 1 135 0 13 37 1,229
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 1 2 5 45 4 14 29 66
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 0 1 5 201 3 16 54 430
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 0 2 144 0 2 22 252
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 0 5 17 166
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 1 53 2 6 21 117
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 132 3 23 42 244
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 0 172 0 12 31 540
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 1 2 11 263
The Need for Enemies 0 2 10 503 5 15 82 1,735
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 0 3 8 210 0 7 35 539
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 0 1 6 29 0 3 28 37
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 0 1 125 3 7 28 330
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 1 5 1,100 2 7 29 4,428
The Political Economy of Inequality 0 0 0 467 0 9 37 1,968
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 46 0 0 19 110
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 74 0 1 16 165
The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile 0 0 0 85 0 6 13 248
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 1 4 14 272
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 2 359 1 10 53 624
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 0 357 3 10 29 1,302
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 1 4 428 3 13 63 2,176
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 0 8 1,081 4 30 120 5,453
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 0 1 2 13 0 3 15 45
The Success of the Embedded State in England 0 16 16 16 3 10 10 10
The Weak State Trap 0 1 7 206 0 7 41 555
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 1 10 22 350
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan 0 0 1 91 0 2 26 282
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 1 36 1 1 15 156
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 0 5 9 1,248
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 2 4 12 170 3 22 69 794
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 0 502 0 4 27 1,511
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 49 0 1 11 193
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia" 0 0 0 75 0 2 9 346
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 90 0 4 18 283
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia�s La Violencia 0 0 0 56 0 1 11 323
When is a State Predatory? 0 0 4 153 0 5 36 2,631
Where Does Inequality Come From?: Ideas and Implications for Latin America 0 0 1 145 0 1 14 1,147
White Elephants 0 0 0 303 1 6 22 1,106
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 2 3 22 539
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 0 3 9 187
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 44 0 1 23 180
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 1 1 39 0 5 12 192
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 78 1 3 15 181
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 115 1 2 8 443
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 0 1 10 209
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 426 5 21 57 1,613
Total Working Papers 30 120 597 40,023 270 1,379 5,604 155,397
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A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 9 1,723 4 15 59 6,651
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 0 69 1 2 23 930
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 1 66 12 12 34 390
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 0 1 47 0 2 9 154
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 0 1 7 143 1 12 45 707
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 0 0 3 177 0 0 21 857
Democratization or repression? 0 0 1 179 0 6 29 540
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 0 1 2 149 0 5 19 520
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 0 0 5 120
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 0 1 12 68
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 1 3 297 1 8 37 1,020
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 0 2 81 2 8 31 247
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 0 1 4 142 0 5 44 675
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 1 346 1 6 32 1,121
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 0 0 1 99 0 2 15 299
Income and Democracy 0 1 3 759 2 13 55 2,453
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 0 5 13 770 6 26 131 3,048
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 1 1 6 236 7 23 94 939
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 0 2 10 61
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 0 2 12 889 0 7 151 3,624
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 0 2 11 295
La miseria en Colombia 1 2 3 183 6 8 56 1,569
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 2 351 1 8 20 1,161
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 0 0 2 171 2 5 20 902
Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt's paper 0 0 0 31 0 2 10 77
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions 2 3 9 473 8 23 83 1,848
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 1 2 3 493 3 9 47 1,530
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 1 18 4 14 38 181
Political foundations of the resource curse 3 7 17 469 6 24 80 1,413
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 0 0 0 53 1 2 13 360
Politician-Proof Policy? 0 0 0 18 0 1 7 142
Politique industrielle et développement: analyse en termes d'économie politique 0 0 0 34 0 2 9 109
Property rights and the political organization of agriculture 0 1 2 114 1 5 19 393
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 0 1 37 1 3 11 225
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 0 1 159 2 9 35 817
Rent appropriation and sustained growth 0 0 0 38 0 2 11 240
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 1 1 9 2,086 13 38 161 6,761
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 1 5 13 270
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 0 2 32 0 2 13 158
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 0 110 1 4 32 744
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 0 5 15 2,169
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 101 1 2 26 429
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 3 209 2 6 61 850
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 0 6 16 353
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 0 1 4 42 0 13 38 1,635
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 0 1 4 105 6 16 59 636
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 3 9 69 5,084 77 183 726 19,353
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 0 1 8 285 1 7 44 1,269
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 3 263 2 8 36 1,629
The Need for Enemies 0 0 1 57 0 3 17 250
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 2 7 52 2 13 52 286
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 0 2 13 294 1 10 60 1,002
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 48 0 2 17 356
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 1 413 2 5 35 1,554
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 0 2 6 1,570 7 21 133 6,126
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 3 8 24 617 14 40 128 2,413
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse 0 0 0 34 0 6 20 206
Theories of “bad policy” 0 0 1 46 0 14 28 157
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 0 30 0 1 14 262
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 1 3 9 133 34 46 116 829
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 1 3 8 108
White elephants 1 3 20 344 8 19 89 1,108
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 2 7 566 3 16 177 2,213
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 1 57 2 7 17 341
Total Journal Articles 17 64 302 21,799 250 775 3,477 89,153

Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 7 40 232 1,211
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 2 25 58 679
Total Books 0 0 0 0 9 65 290 1,890

Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Comment on "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth" 0 0 0 10 0 4 10 56
Governance and Development 0 1 7 147 0 10 66 600
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 2 6 104 10 35 97 2,153
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 12 34 162 2,287 65 198 880 8,667
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 0 1 2 85 4 7 19 230
Long-term consequences of population growth: Technological change, natural resources, and the environment 0 0 0 289 0 9 21 1,437
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 1 20 0 2 12 115
Total Chapters 12 38 178 2,942 79 265 1,105 13,258

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