Robin Harding

I am an Associate Professor 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 political economy of development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Recent papers

• Who is Democracy Good For? Elections, Rural Bias, and Health and Education Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
• The Democratic Dividend: Public Spending and Education under Multipartyism. In Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics. Oxford University Press (forthcoming). 
• ​Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana, World Politics, 67:4 (2015), pp. 656-689.​

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