Access Statistics for James Alan Robinson

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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 1 3 29 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 99 2 7 17 262
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 0 4 16 692
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 1 5 14 728
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 1 572 0 12 39 1,641
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 3 24 129 2,682
Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 1 61 61 0 28 55 55
Africa's Latent Assets 0 1 1 35 1 4 16 70
An African Success Story: Botswana 1 8 29 2,877 19 67 199 10,704
Anti-social norms 1 1 2 32 3 6 39 96
Are Endowments Fate? 0 1 3 301 1 4 16 695
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 0 2 5 654
Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success 0 0 0 160 1 8 27 420
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 3 371 1 7 59 1,579
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 1 101 0 9 43 330
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 1 1 216 0 5 21 316
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 0 1 4 56 0 6 23 128
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 0 2 22 2,486 24 64 204 10,321
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 5 24 60 574
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 0 1 4 15 2 7 16 56
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa 0 0 4 78 0 3 20 120
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 1 3 11 105 7 23 82 347
Democracy Does Cause Growth 1 2 5 1,180 8 49 115 3,764
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 1 3 9 644 9 28 113 1,825
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 0 4 10 550
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 0 3 11 675
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 1 178 2 5 16 823
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 2 462 2 9 39 2,132
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 0 4 282 2 7 37 1,324
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 1 275 0 5 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 0 2 32 62
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 0 280 0 7 25 517
From Education to Democracy? 0 2 2 539 3 12 39 1,518
Governance and Development 0 1 1 159 2 6 29 476
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 0 80 2 5 21 247
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 0 1 5 196 8 19 75 693
How Institutions Change Over Time 1 2 4 285 1 12 30 1,895
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 5 19 85 1,181 44 149 498 3,443
Income and Democracy 0 0 0 382 1 17 38 1,405
Income and Democracy 1 2 6 684 5 24 69 1,785
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 0 88 0 4 17 248
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 0 4 21 1,117
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 637 2 17 43 2,198
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 330 0 12 30 1,335
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 0 109 2 5 12 189
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 1 5 20 811 6 25 114 2,162
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 4 9 33 2,245 17 80 253 6,415
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 1 7 699 7 27 70 1,471
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 2 60 0 2 18 215
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 2 2 2 560 3 13 52 820
Interview with 2024 Economics Laureate James Robinson 0 1 16 16 1 6 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 3 3 75 4 12 20 148
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 1 360 0 7 23 1,162
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 1 2 281 1 8 44 1,743
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 241 1 4 13 950
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 34 0 3 11 181
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 0 1 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 1 1 1 205 2 9 22 841
Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the Environment 0 0 0 1 2 5 16 3,249
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition 0 0 1 15 1 5 20 48
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 0 4 11 235
Nobel Prize Conversations podcast 0 1 17 17 0 6 17 17
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 0 83 3 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 7 72 0 3 29 51
Paths towards the Periphery 1 2 10 110 1 4 35 113
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 1 4 7 608 5 21 75 1,608
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 1 1 205 2 13 46 771
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 1 441 1 3 12 903
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 0 127 1 4 13 197
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 0 0 8 294
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 81 0 3 6 292
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 2 684 1 10 31 1,722
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 60
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 1 1 513 2 9 22 2,048
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 171 0 5 20 500
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 294 0 6 13 753
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 0 58 3 16 65 172
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 0 10 2,059 4 52 172 7,162
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 0 3 18 916
Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters 0 1 2 2 3 6 10 10
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 1 1 139 0 5 18 649
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 1 2 2 251 1 7 21 423
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 1 1 2 41 2 12 30 231
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 1 316 1 12 25 683
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa 0 0 0 35 1 4 14 42
The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution 1 1 43 43 3 5 39 39
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 1 3 19 1,963 4 41 114 6,570
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 5 404 1 17 58 2,529
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 1 1 135 2 13 37 1,229
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 1 1 4 44 3 11 25 62
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 1 1 5 201 7 22 51 427
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 0 2 144 1 5 22 252
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 1 9 17 166
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 1 53 0 4 20 115
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 132 3 22 39 241
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 0 172 6 16 32 540
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 1 2 10 262
The Need for Enemies 2 2 12 503 5 11 83 1,730
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 1 3 9 210 1 7 38 539
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 1 1 29 29 1 6 37 37
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 0 1 125 0 6 27 327
The Political Economy of Clientelism 1 1 5 1,100 1 7 27 4,426
The Political Economy of Inequality 0 0 1 467 0 10 38 1,968
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 0 19 110
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 74 0 2 16 165
The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile 0 0 0 85 2 6 13 248
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 0 5 13 271
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 2 359 4 11 53 623
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 0 357 1 13 26 1,299
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 1 2 4 428 1 15 60 2,173
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 0 9 1,081 7 37 121 5,449
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 1 2 2 13 2 4 15 45
The Success of the Embedded State in England 16 16 16 16 7 7 7 7
The Weak State Trap 0 1 8 206 6 10 42 555
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 4 9 23 349
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 0 0 14 155
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 1 5 9 1,248
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 1 4 10 168 4 24 67 791
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 0 502 1 6 27 1,511
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 49 0 2 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 1 6 18 283
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia�s La Violencia 0 0 0 56 0 2 11 323
When is a State Predatory? 0 1 5 153 0 7 37 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 3 9 21 1,105
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 0 2 21 537
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 115 0 1 9 442
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 1 3 10 187
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 78 0 2 14 180
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 1 1 1 39 1 8 12 192
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 44 1 3 23 180
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 0 1 11 209
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 426 3 21 55 1,608
Total Working Papers 53 132 630 39,993 331 1,605 5,530 155,127
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A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 11 1,723 1 16 59 6,647
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 0 69 1 1 22 929
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 1 66 0 2 23 378
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 0 2 47 0 2 12 154
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 0 1 7 143 3 14 44 706
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 0 0 3 177 0 1 22 857
Democratization or repression? 0 0 1 179 2 9 30 540
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 0 1 2 149 0 6 20 520
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 0 0 5 120
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 0 2 13 68
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 2 3 297 2 14 36 1,019
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 0 3 81 1 7 30 245
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 1 1 5 142 2 9 47 675
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 1 346 1 6 33 1,120
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 0 0 2 99 0 3 17 299
Income and Democracy 0 1 4 759 1 13 55 2,451
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 4 5 14 770 7 29 140 3,042
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 0 1 8 235 9 31 95 932
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 0 2 10 61
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 2 5 12 889 4 14 151 3,624
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 0 4 11 295
La miseria en Colombia 0 1 2 182 0 11 51 1,563
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 2 351 2 7 20 1,160
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 0 1 2 171 1 5 19 900
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 1 1 7 471 5 17 75 1,840
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 0 1 4 492 4 9 47 1,527
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 0 1 1 18 2 20 35 177
Political foundations of the resource curse 3 6 14 466 5 26 78 1,407
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 0 0 0 53 1 2 13 359
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 3 114 1 5 19 392
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 0 1 37 0 2 10 224
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 0 1 159 1 10 36 815
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 0 1 8 2,085 7 39 157 6,748
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 0 7 12 269
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 0 2 32 0 6 13 158
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 0 110 0 3 35 743
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 2 5 16 2,169
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 101 0 2 26 428
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 1 4 209 1 6 63 848
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 0 7 16 353
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 0 2 4 42 4 16 38 1,635
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 1 1 4 105 3 13 56 630
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 1 13 68 5,081 53 170 685 19,276
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 0 1 9 285 4 10 45 1,268
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 1 3 263 2 10 34 1,627
The Need for Enemies 0 1 1 57 0 5 17 250
The Political Economy of Clientelism 2 2 7 52 3 13 54 284
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 1 4 13 294 3 13 60 1,001
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 34 1,552
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 1 2 10 1,570 4 18 136 6,119
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 3 6 21 614 11 35 114 2,399
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 2 46 10 14 29 157
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 0 30 1 2 16 262
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 3 8 132 5 16 83 795
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 2 2 7 107
White elephants 2 5 20 343 8 18 82 1,100
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 2 3 7 566 9 30 174 2,210
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 1 57 0 5 16 339
Total Journal Articles 24 75 309 21,782 190 784 3,370 88,903

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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 3 26 62 677
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 7 46 237 1,204
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 72 299 1,881

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Comment on "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth" 0 0 0 10 1 4 10 56
Governance and Development 0 1 9 147 2 12 71 600
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 1 3 6 104 10 39 94 2,143
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 8 39 164 2,275 65 207 862 8,602
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 0 1 2 85 0 3 16 226
Long-term consequences of population growth: Technological change, natural resources, and the environment 0 0 0 289 0 12 21 1,437
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 1 20 0 2 12 115
Total Chapters 9 44 182 2,930 78 279 1,086 13,179

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