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Robin Harding
Professor of Politics, DPIR
Gillian Peele Fellow in Politics, Lady Margaret Hall
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I am a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. I am also the Gillian Peele Fellow in Politics at Lady Margaret Hall.
My research interests are broadly centred on the relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes, in areas such as education, healthcare, and the environment. Within this, my current work focuses primarily on three broad themes:
- the provision of public goods and services,
- electoral accountability, and in particular how it is affected by policy attribution
- political violence and state capacity.
My research has been published in journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics. My book Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
Publications
- 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).
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