ROBIN HARDING
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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.
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Recent publications

  • Candidate Coethnicity, Rural/Urban Divides, and Partisanship in Africa  (with​ Kristin Michelitch), Party Politics, (forthcoming).
  • Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Northern Somalia (with Avidit Acharya and J. Andrew 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).​

New book

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  • Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa. Oxford University Press (2020).
    • Coverage in The Economist: "Vexed in the city", Nov 8th 2018
    • Post for Democracy in Africa Book Club, April 24th 2020
    • ​Article for The Conversation, May 24th 2020
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