ROBIN HARDING
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Robin Harding

I 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. My research focuses primarily on the relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes, in areas such as education, healthcare, and the environment. 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) 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.​​
  • My book Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa (OUP 2020) was released in paperback edition in August 2022.
    • Coverage in The Economist: "Vexed in the city", Nov 8th 2018
    • Post for Democracy in Africa Book Club, April 24th 2020
    • ​Article in The Conversation, May 24th 2020
    • Review in Perspectives on Politics by Daniel de Kadt, September 2021 
    • Review in Democratization​ by Helder Ferreira do Vale, April 2022
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Most recent publications

  • 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 (Kristin Michelitch), Party Politics​, 27:4 (2021).​​
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