ROBIN HARDING
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Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa
,
Oxford University Press
(2020)
Articles and c
hapters (peer-reviewed)
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation
(with Mounu Prem, Nelson A. Ruiz and David Vargas),
American Political Science Review
(2023).
Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria
(with Arinze Nwokolo),
American Journal of Political Science,
(2023).
Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID-19 lockdown with a natural experiment
(with Andrew C. Eggers),
European Journal of Political Research
, 61 (2022).
Candidate Coethnicity, Rural/Urban Divides, and Partisanship in Africa
(with Kristin Michelitch),
Party Politics
, 24:7 (2021).
Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Northern Somalia
(with Avidit Acharya and Andy Harris),
Journal of Theoretical Politics
, 32:4 (2020).
Who is Democracy Good For? Elections, Rural Bias, and Health and Education Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
,
Journal of Politics
, 82:1 (2020).
The Democratic Dividend: Public Spending and Education under Multipartyism.
In
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics
. Oxford University Press (2019).
Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana
,
World Politics
, 67:4 (2015).
What Democracy Does (and Doesn't) do for Basic Services: School Fees, School Quality, and African Elections
(with David Stasavage),
Journal of Politics
, 76:1 (2014).
Public Investment in Rural Infrastructure: Some Political Economy Considerations
(with Moussa Blimpo and Leonard Wantchekon),
Journal of African Economies
, 22 (2013).
Freedom to Choose and Democracy: The Empirical Question
,
Economics and Philosophy
, 27:3 (2011).
Urban-Rural Differences in Incumbent Support Across Africa.
Afrobarometer Working Paper Series
, June 2010.
Other published papers
Food Security and Public Investment in Rural Infrastructure: Some Political Economy Considerations
(with Leonard Wantchekon),
UNDP Research Paper
, January 2012.
The Political Economy of Human Development.
(with LeonardWantchekon),
UNDP Research Paper
, October 2010.
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