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The Weatherhead Center has developed a presence on the Internet that, to a growing readership, is playing a significant role in the projection of Harvard scholarship on international affairs. The site includes: faculty research available through categorical fields of inquiry; searches by author, subject, title or date of publication; Working Papers selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs; In the News links to op-ed and other pieces written by or about the Center’s faculty associates; and recent books by faculty associates, including editorial summaries. The Center is always adding to the collection of published journal articles available on its site and responding to the interests of Center faculty and other users in making the site an indispensable scholarly tool.

Below are a selection of our most recently uploaded publications.

Rotten Parents: by Robinson, James A.; We study the implications of the trade–off between child quality and child quantity for the efficiency of the rate of population growth. We show that if quantity and quality are inversely related...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2000 More

An African Success Story: Botswana: by Robinson, James A.; Despite some success stories in the 1960s and early 1970s, Africa is poor and getting poorer. There is also an almost universally pessimistic consensus about its economic prospects. This consensus...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2001 More

Institutions, Volatility, and Crises: by Robinson, James A.; In Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose eds. Growth and Productivity in East Asia, Chicago and London; The University of Chicago Press. There is a growing consensus among economists that differences in...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2004 More

Adapting by Expectation: Early EU Policies in the CEE Region and the Consolidation of theTwo 'Orbits' of Post-communist Economic: by Georgiadis, George G.; The paper is concerned with two questions related to post-communist economic transformation. The first aims at establishing whether national transformation trajectories follow a general pattern of...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2005 More

The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve: by Robinson, James A.; The paper provides a political economy theory of the Kuznets curve. When development leads to increasing inequality, this can induce political instability and force democratization on political...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2002 More

In My Back Yard, Please: An Analysis of the Siting and Success of Public Bads in Japan: by Aldrich, Daniel P.; This paper examines how the concentration of special interest groups affects the placement and success of controversial facilities. It argues that authorities site public bads–nuclear power...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2005 More

Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth: by Robinson, James A.; Countries that have pursued distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered more macroeconomic volatility...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: August 2002 More

White Elephants: by Robinson, James A.; Underdevelopment is thought to be about lack of investment, and many political economy theories can account for this. Yet, there has been much investment in developing countries. The problem has...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2004 More

Are Endowments Fate?: by Robinson, James A.; In recent theories of comparative development the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet what explains comparative institutional evolution? We investigate this issue by studying the...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: February 2002 More

Causal Complexity and the Study of Politics: by Braumoeller, Bear F.; Theories that posit complex causation, or multiple causal paths, pervade the study of politics but have yet to find accurate statistical expression. To remedy this situation I derive new econometric...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2003 More

Community, Class, and Conservation: Development Politics on the Kanyakumari Coast: by Subramanian, Ajantha; In this paper, I trace the checkered history of ?community? in one south Indian locale — the coastal belt of Kanyakumari District –from its immediate post–independence role as a mechanism of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: July 2003 More

Mukkuvar Modernity: Development as a Cultural Identity: by Subramanian, Ajantha; In the general elections of 1996, a village of Catholic fishers from the south Indian district of Kanyakumari voted overwhelmingly for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. In this essay, I...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2003 More

Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda: by Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky; Mainstream comparative research on political institutions focuses primarily on formal rules. Yet in many contexts, informal insti–tutions, ranging from bureaucratic and legislative norms to...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2004 More

Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru: by Levitsky, Steven; Political parties are critical to Latin American democracy. This was demonstrated in Peru, where an atomized, candidate–centered party system developed after Alberto Fujimori?s 1992 presidential...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2003 More

Explaining Populist Party Adaptation in Latin America: by Levitsky, Steven; This article uses a two–level framework to explain variation in Latin American populist parties? responses to the neoliberal challenge of the 1980s and 1990s.First,it examines the incentives for...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2003 More

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