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List of works by James A. Robinson

A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

scientific article published in April 2006

Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification

Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone

scientific article published in January 2013

Colonial origins of comparative development

2001 economics paper by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson

Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

article

Democracy Does Cause Growth

Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality

article

Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

scientific article published in June 2007

Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice

scientific article published in March 2013

Endogenous Presidentialism

scientific article published in December 2008

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia

scientific article published in June 2012

From Education to Democracy?

scientific article published in March 2005

He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election

Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"

scientific article published in April 2011

Income and Democracy

scientific article published in March 2005

Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective

scientific article published in May 2014

Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

scientific article published in August 2002

Institutional Comparative Statics

scientific article published in June 2011

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

scientific article published in May 2004

Institutions, Human Capital and Development

scientific article published in February 2014

Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in February 2017

Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in January 2018

Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule

Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

scientific article published in September 2006

Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

scientific article published in March 2006

Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa

scientific article published in February 2013

Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

scientific article published in March 2006

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

scientific article published in August 2007

Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa

scientific article published in November 2013

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

scientific article published in September 2001

Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia

scientific article published in June 2010

State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century

scientific article published in February 2016

State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach

scientific article published in January 2014

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

scientific article published on December 2001

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution

The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

scientific article published in August 2017

The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom

The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

scientific article published in May 2015

The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries

scientific article published in August 2015

The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia

scientific article published in December 2009

The Myth of the Frontier

scientific article published in March 2009

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

A popular science book by Daron Adzhemoglu and James Robinson

The Need for Enemies

scientific article published in August 2012

The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives

scientific article published in September 2016

The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization

scientific article published in May 2016

The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse

scientific article published in May 2015

The Real Swing Voter's Curse

scientific article published in March 2009

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

scientific article published in December 2014

The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

scholarly article published December 2002

The Weak State Trap

scientific article published in March 2020

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

scientific article published in May 2018

Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT)

scientific article published in January 2015

What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?

scientific article published in July 2011

When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence

scientific article published in May 2008

When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia"

scientific article published in December 2006

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?

scientific article published in August 2011

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

2012 book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson