James A. Robinson

Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective

Year: 1998
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Democratization or Repression

Year: 1999
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Inefficient Redistribution

Year: 1999
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

A Theory of Political Transitions

Year: 1999
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

Year: 2001
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jonathan H. Conning; James A. Robinson

Are Endowments Fate?

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeffrey B. Nugent; James A. Robinson

Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Monetary Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson; Yunyong Thaicharoen

An African Success Story: Botswana

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

Political Foundations of the Resource Curse

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Development Economics
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik; Thierry Verdier

The Political Economy of Clientelism

Year: 2002
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Authors: James A. Robinson; Thierry Verdier

White Elephants

Year: 2002
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2003
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

Land and Power

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jean-Marie Baland; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson; Thierry Verdier

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

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson; Thierry Verdier

Institutions and the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

From Education to Democracy

Year: 2005
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson; Pierre Yared

Income and Democracy

Year: 2005
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson; Pierre Yared

A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

Year: 2005
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

Income and Democracy

Year: 2005
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson; Pierre Yared

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

Year: 2006
Journal: Journal of Conflict Resolution
Authors: Mario Chacon; James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

Persistence of Power Elites and Institutions

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2006
Journal: Journal of Conflict Resolution
Authors: Mario Chacón; James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

Persistence of Power Elites and Institutions

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

Year: 2006
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

Political Conflict and Power Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Sebastián L. Mazzuca; James A. Robinson

Political Conflict and Powersharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Sebastián Mazzuca; James A. Robinson

Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Jean-Marie Baland; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Mara Angélica Bautista; Pablo Querubín; James A. Robinson

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Monetary Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson; Pierre Yared

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Monetary Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson; Pierre Yared

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

Year: 2008
Journal: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; Pablo Querubin; James A. Robinson

Endogenous Presidentialism

Year: 2008
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

The Real Swing Voter's Curse

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia

Year: 2009
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson; Rafael Santos

The Myth of the Frontier

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Camilo Garcia Jimeno; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Isaas N. Chaves; Leopoldo Fergusson; James A. Robinson

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Davide Cantoni; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Davide Cantoni; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2010
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Tarek A. Hassan; James A. Robinson

Institutional Comparative Statics

Year: 2011
Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Steven C. A. Pincus; James A. Robinson

The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jean-Marie Baland; James A. Robinson

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?

Year: 2011
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

Hither Thou Shalt Come But No Further: Reply to the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

Year: 2011
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; James A. Robinson

Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leander Heldring; James A. Robinson

The Need for Enemies

Year: 2012
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Leopoldo Fergusson; James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik; Juan F. Vargas

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

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson; Thierry Verdier

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Comparative Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Camilo Garcajimeno; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Tristan Reed; James A. Robinson

Political Centralization in Precolonial Africa

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Comparative Economics
Authors: Philip Osafo-Kwaako; James A. Robinson

Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Isaac N. Chaves; Stanley L. Engerman; James A. Robinson

Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Suresh Naidu; Pascual Restrepo; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Isaas N. Chaves; Philip Osafo-Kwaako; James A. Robinson

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Democracy Does Cause Growth

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Suresh Naidu; Pascual Restrepo; James A. Robinson

State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach

Year: 2014
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Camilo Garcajimeno; James A. Robinson

Institutions, Human Capital, and Development

Year: 2014
Journal: Annual Review of Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Francisco A. Gallego; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2015
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Sara Lowes; Nathan Nunn; James A. Robinson; Jonathan Weigel

The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeanet Bentzen; Jacob Gerner Hariri; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2015
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Leander Heldring; James A. Robinson; Sebastian Vollmer

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

Year: 2015
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Sara Lowes; Nathan Nunn; James A. Robinson; Jonathan Weigel

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

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik; Thierry Verdier

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

Year: 2015
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik; Thierry Verdier

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

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Jacob Moscona; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Leopoldo Fergusson; James A. Robinson; Dario Romero; Juan F. Vargas

The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Comparative Economics
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson; Ragnar Torvik

The Emergence of Weak, Despotic, and Inclusive States

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2017
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Jacob Moscona; Nathan Nunn; James A. Robinson

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

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jacob Moscona; Nathan Nunn; James A. Robinson

Trust in State and Nonstate Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; Ali Cheema; Asim I. Khwaja; James A. Robinson

Social Structure and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jacob Moscona; Nathan Nunn; James A. Robinson

The Emergence of Weak, Despotic, and Inclusive States

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

The Weak State Trap

Year: 2020
Journal: Economica
Authors: Leopoldo Fergusson; Carlos A. Molina; James A. Robinson

Africa's Latent Assets

Year: 2021
Journal: Journal of African Economies
Authors: Soeren J. Henn; James A. Robinson

Culture, Institutions, and Social Equilibria: A Framework

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Africa's Latent Assets

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James A. Robinson; Soeren Henn

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

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James A. Robinson; Leander Heldring; Sebastian Vollmer

Culture, Institutions and Equilibria: A Framework

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James A. Robinson; Daron Acemoglu

Nonmodernization, Power-Culture Trajectories, and the Dynamics of Political Institutions

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson

Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa

Year: 2022
Journal: Journal of African Economies
Authors: James A. Robinson

African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jutta Bolt; Leigh Gardner; Jennifer Kohler; Jack Paine; James A. Robinson

Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa

Year: 2022
Journal: Journal of African Economies
Authors: James A. Robinson

The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leander Heldring; James A. Robinson; Sebastian Vollmer

The Second World War, Inequality, and the Social Contract in Britain

Year: 2022
Journal: Economica
Authors: Leander Heldring; James A. Robinson; Parker J. Whitfill

Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leopoldo Fergusson; Javier Mejia; James A. Robinson; Santiago Torres

Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: A. Arda Gitmez; James A. Robinson; Mehdi Shadmehr