Robin HardingI am an Associate Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and the Gillian Peele Fellow in Politics at Lady Margaret Hall. I am also a member of the Oxford Q-Step Centre. My research focuses primarily on the relationship between democratic institutions and the provision of public services such as education and healthcare. I also have a broad interest in questions related to electoral accountability, and in particular how it is affected by policy attribution.
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News
- My co-authored work on campaign donations and deforestation in Colombia with Mount Prem, Nelson Ruiz and David Vargas was written up in this recent post for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.
- My article Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Northern Somalia (with Avidit Acharya and J. Andrew Harris) has won the 2022 Elinor Ostrom Award for the best article published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics, awarded by the American Political Science Association’s Formal Theory section.
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- My article Who is Democracy Good For? Elections, Rural Bias, and Health and Education Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Best Article Award given by the American Political Science Association’s Democracy and Autocracy section.
Most recent publications
- 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 (Kristin Michelitch), Party Politics, 27:4 (2021).
- Who is Democracy Good For? Elections, Rural Bias, and Health and Education Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Politics, 82:1 (2020).