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Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.
The Institutions Curse
Debunks the view that natural resources lead to terrible outcomes by demonstrating that oil and minerals are actually a blessing.
Dictators and Democrats
A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the world From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? Dictators and Democrats takes a comprehensive look at the transitions to and from democracy in recent decades. Deploying both statistical and qualitative analysis, Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman engage with theories of democratic change and advocate approaches that emphasize political and institu...
Constraining Dictatorship
Examining constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa reveals how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems.
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America
Rather than an unintended by-product of poor state capacity, weak political and legal institutions are often weak by design.
Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes
This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy
Understanding Latin America's recent economic performance calls for a multidisciplinary analysis. This handbook looks at the interaction of economics and politics in the region and includes a number of contributions from top academic experts who have also served as key policy makers (a former president, ministers of finance, a central bank governor), reflecting upon the challenges of reform.
Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy
In this book top scholars analyse the historic and contemporary influence of Magna Carta, challenging its common myths.
Oil and Governance
National oil companies (NOCs) play an important role in the world economy. They produce most of the world's oil and bankroll governments across the globe. This book explains the variation in performance and strategy for NOCs and provides fresh insights into the future of the oil industry.
The Battle Over Patents
This essay is the introduction to a book of the same title, forthcoming in summer of 2021 from Oxford University Press. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in any way they can, and consequently, they are riven with imperfections. The interesting historical question is why US-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays in the book suggest that the creation of a tradable but temporary property right facilitates the transfer of technological knowledge and thus fosters a highly productive decentralized ecology of inventors and firms.
