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Introduction: The Deliberative Roots and Gender Complementarity in Igbo Political System

by emagill | Jul 19, 2024 | Journal Articles

Citation Korieh, Chima, Maria Bautista, and James Robinson. “Introduction: The Deliberative Roots and Gender Complementarity in Igbo Political System” Ikenga International Journal of Institute of African Studies. 24, no. 3. (2023): 1-14. Download (PDF)...

Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa

by annamedearis | Apr 29, 2022 | Journal Articles

Citation Robinson, James A. “Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa.” Journal of African Economies. 32, Issue Supplement_1, (2023): i33–i56. Download (PDF) Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa Abstract Despite the low levels of taxation and...

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

by acarr3 | Jan 13, 2022 | Journal Articles

Citation Heldring, Leander, James A. Robinson, and Parker Whitfill, “The Second World War, Inequality, and the Social Contract in Britain,” Economica, 89, no.1 (2022): 137-159 Download (PDF) The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain Abstract...

Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions

by acarr3 | Jul 7, 2021 | Journal Articles

Citation Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson, “Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions,” Annual Review of Political Science, 25 (2022), 323–39. Download (PDF) Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the...

Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

by acarr3 | Dec 17, 2020 | Journal Articles

Citation van Dorp, Lucy, Sara Lowes, Jonathan L. Weigel, Naser Ansari-Pour, Saioa López, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, James A. Robinson, Joseph Henrich, Mark G. Thomas, Nathan Nunn, and Garrett Hellenthal. 2019. “Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom...

Power and Persistence: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

by jovanddo | Oct 27, 2019 | Journal Articles

Citation “Power and Persistence: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy,” (2019) (joint with Jeanet Bentzen Sinding and Jacob Gerner Hariri, University of Copenhagen), Economic Journal, 129, 618, 1, 678-714. Download (PDF) Power and Persistence: The...
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