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Development Studies Doctoral Concentration Reading List
Abers, Rebecca and Margaret Keck. 2009. “Mobilizing the State: The Erratic Partner in Brazil’s
Participatory Water Policy.” Politics and Society 37, no. 2: 289-314.
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power,
Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Business.
• Chapters 1-3 and 11-12
Auerbach, Adam. 2016. “Clients and Communities: The Political Economy of Party Network
Organization and Development in India’s Urban Slums”. World Politics 68, no. 1: forthcoming.
Balazs, Carolina and Ranganathan, Malini. 2015. “Water Marginalization at the Urban Fringe:
Environmental Justice and Urban Political Ecology Across the North-South Divide.” Urban
Geography 36, no. 3: 403-423.
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Lakshmi Iyer. 2005. "History, Institutions, and Economic Performance:
The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India." American Economic Review 95, no. 4:
1190-213.
Banerjee, Abhijit and Ester Duflo. 2007. "The Economic Lives of the Poor." Journal of
Economic Perspectives 21, no. 1: 141-168.
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee. 2006. Decentralization and Local Governance in
Developing Countries. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Barro, Robert. 1991. “Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries.” Quarterly Journal of
Economics 106, no. 2: 407-43.
Bates, Robert. 2001. Prosperity and Violence. New York. W.W. Norton and Company.
Beaman, Lori, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, and Petia Topalova.
2009. "Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Prejudice?" QJE 124 (4): 1497-1540.
Beneria, Lourdes. 2003. Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People
Mattered. New York: Routledge.
Besley, Tim and Robin Burgess. 2002. "The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness:
Theory and Evidence from India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (4): 1415-51.
Bjorkman, M, and J. Svensson. 2009. “Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field
Experiment of a Community Based Monitoring Project in Uganda.” QJE: 735-69.
Bratman, Eve. 2011. “Development’s Paradox: Is Washington DC a Third World City?” Third
World Quarterly 32, no. 9: 1541-56.
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Broad, Robin and Cavanagh, John. 2008. Development Redefined: How the Market Met its
Match. New York: Routledge.
Cardoso, Fernando and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chambers, Robert. 1983. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. New York: Routledge.
Chang, Ha-Joon. 2002. Kicking Away the Ladder. London: Anthem Press.
Chant, Sylvia and Cathy McIlwaine. 1998. Three Generations, Two Genders, One World:
Women and Men in a Changing Century. London: Zed Books.
Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra and Esther Duflo. 2004. "Women as Policy Makers: Evidence
from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India.” Econometrica 72 , no. 5: 1409-43.
Coase, Ronald. 1960. “The Problem of Social Cost.” Journal of Law and Economics 3: 1-44.
Cornwall, Andrea. 2007. “Buzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing Development Discourse.”
Development in Practice 17, no. 4/5: 471–84.
Easterly, William and Ross Levine. 1997. “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic
Divisions.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, no. 2: 1203-50.
Easterly, William. 2006. The White Man’s Burden. New York: Penguin.
Escobar, Arturo. 1988. “Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management
of the Third World.” Cultural Anthropology 3, no. 4: 428-43.
Esser, Daniel. 2012. “When We Launched the Government’s Agenda: Aid Agencies and Local
Politics in Urban Africa.” The Journal of Modern African Studies 50, no. 3: 397–420.
Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton: PUP.
Evans, Peter. 1996. “Government Action, Social Capital, and Development: Reviewing the
Evidence.” World Development 24, no. 6: 1119-32.
Fanon, Frantz. 1961. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.
Ferguson, James. 1994. The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and
Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Ferraz, Claudio and Frederico Finan. 2010. “Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence
from the Audit of Local Governments.” American Economic Review 101: 1274-1311.
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Fox, Jonathan. 1994. “The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from
Mexico.” World Politics 46, no. 2: 151-84.
Fox, Jonathan. 2015. “Social Accountability: What does the Evidence Really Say?” World
Development 72: 346-61.
Gerschenkron, Alexander. 1962. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge:
HUP.
Giraudy, Agustina. 2013. “Varieties of Subnational Undemocratic Regimes: Evidence from
Argentina and Mexico.” Studies in Comparative International Development 48, no. 1: 51-80.
Haber, Sephen and Victor Menaldo. 2011. "Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A
Reappraisal of the Resource Curse." American Political Science Review 105 (1): 1‐26.
Habyarimana, James, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, and Jeremy Weinstein. 2007. “Why
Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?” American Political Science Review
101, no. 4: 709-725.
Heller, Patrick. 2001. “Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala,
South Africa, and Porto Alegre.” Politics and Society 29, no. 1: 131-163.
Hirschman, Albert. 1970. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Cambridge: HUP.
Jinnah, Sikina. 2011. “Strategic Linkages: The Evolving Role of Trade Agreements in Global
Environmental Governance.” Journal of Environment and Development 20, no. 2: 191-215.
Kohli, Atul. 2004. State-Directed Development. New York: CUP.
• Introduction
Krishna, Anirudh. 2007. “Politics in the Middle: Mediating Relationships Between the Citizens
and the State in Rural North India.” In Patrons, Clients, and Policies: Patterns of Democratic
Accountability and Political Competition (Herbert Kitschelt and Steven Wilkinson, eds.). New
York: CUP.
Kruger, Anne. 1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.” American Economic
Review 64, no. 3: 292-303.
Krugman. Paul. 1991. Geography and Trade. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Krugman, Paul. 1991. “History Versus Expectations.” QJE 106, no. 2: 651-67.
Kuhn, Randall. 2010. “Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries Revisited.” Population and
Development Review 36, no. 4: 655-92.
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Mahoney, James. 2015. “Comparative Historical Analysis and Development Studies.” Sociology
of Development 1, no. 1: (77-90).
Mamdani, Mahmood. 1996. Decentralized Despotism. Princeton: PUP.
Mansuri, Ghazala and Vijayendra Rao. 2013. “Localizing Development: Does Participation
Work?” World Bank Policy Research Report.
Miguel, Edward. 2004. “Tribe or Nation? Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus
Tanzania.” World Politics 56, no. 3: 327-62.
Milgrom, Paul, Douglass North, and Barry Weingast. 1990. “The Role of Institutions in the
Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs.” Economics
and Politics 2, no. 1: 33-54.
Moe, Terry. 2005. “Power and Political Institutions.” Perspectives on Politics 3, no. 2: 215–33.
Moser, Caroline and Annalise Moser. 2005. “Gender Mainstreaming since Beijing.” Gender and
Development 13, no 2: 11-22.
Murphy, Kevin, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny. 1989. “Industrialization and the Big Push.”
Journal of Political Economy 97, no. 5: 1003-26.
North, Douglas and Barry Weingast. 1989. “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of
Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England.” Journal of Economic History 49,
no. 4: 803-32.
North, Douglass. 1997. “The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development.” The
New Institutional Economics and Third World Development, edited by Harriss, John, Janet
Hunter, and Colin Lewis. New York: Routledge.
Nunn, Nathan. 2009. “The Importance of History for Economic Development.” Annual Review
of Economics 1: 65-92.
Nunn, Nathan and Leonard Wantchekon. 2013. “The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in
Africa.” American Economic Review 101, no. 7: 3221-52.
Olken, Benjamin. 2007. “Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Indonesia.” Journal of Political Economy 115, no. 2: 200-49.
Olson, Mancur. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action. Cambridge: HUP.
Olson, Mancur. 1993. "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development." American Political Science
Review 87, no. 3: 567-76.
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Olson, Mancur. 1996. “Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others
Poor.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 10, no. 2: 3-24.
Olsson, Ola. 2009. “On the Democratic Legacy of Colonialism.” Journal of Comparative
Economics 37, no. 4: 534-51.
Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective
Action. New York: CUP.
Ostrom, Elinor. 1996. “Crossing the Great Divide: Co-Production, Synergy, and Development.”
World Development 24, no. 6: 1073-87.
Prashad, Vijay. 2007. The Darker Nations. New York: The New Press.
Prebsich, Raul. 1962. The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principle Problems.
New York: UN Publications.
Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi. 1997. “Modernization: Theory and Facts.” World
Politics 49: 155-84.
Putnam, Robert. 1994. Making Democracy Work. Princeton: PUP.
Rist, Gilbert. 2008. The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith.
London: Zed Books.
Robinson, Rachel Sullivan. 2012. “Negotiating Development Prescriptions: The Case of
Population Policy in Nigeria.” Population Research and Policy Review 31, no. 2: 267-96.
Rodden, Jonathan. 2008. “Federalism.” Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. NY: OUP.
Rodney, Walter. 2011. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. New York: Black Classic Press.
Rodrik, Dani. 2002. “Institutions, Integration, and Geography: In Search of the Deep
Determinants of Economic Growth.” In Search of Prosperity. Princeton: PUP.
Romer, Paul. 1994. “The Origins of Endogenous Growth.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 8:
3-22.
Rosenstein-Rodan. 1943. “Problems of Industrialization of Eastern and Southeastern Europe.”
Economic Journal 53: 202-11.
Ross, Michael. 2006. “Is Democracy Good for the Poor?” American Journal of Political Science
50, no. 4: 860-874.
Rostow, W.W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. London:
Cambridge University Press.
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Sachs, Jeffrey. 2006. The End of Poverty. New York: Penguin.
Samarasinghe, Vidyamali and B. Burton. 2007. “Strategizing Prevention: A Critical Review of
Local Initiatives to Prevent Female Sex Trafficking.” Development in Practice 17, no. 1: 51-64.
Schumpeter, Joseph. 2010 edition. Capitalism, Socialism, & Democracy. New York: Kessinger.
Scott, James. 1977. Moral Economy of the Peasant. New Haven: YUP.
Sen, Amartya. 2000. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.
Shepler, Susan. 2005. “The Rites of the Child: Global Discourses of Youth and Reintegrating
Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone.” Journal of Human Rights 4, no. 2: 197-211.
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Economics 70, no. 1: 65-94.
Tarekegn, Tefera and John Overton. 2011. “Isolation as a Development Strategy: Perspectives
from an Ethiopian Village.” African Geographical Review 30, no. 2: 35–52.
Tendler, Judith. 1998. Good Governance in the Tropics. Baltimore: JHUP.
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64, no. 5: 416-24.
Tsai, Lily. 2007. “Solidarity Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision
in Rural China.” American Political Science Review 101, no. 2: 355-72.
Varshney, Ashutosh. 2001. “Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society.” World Politics 53, no. 3: 362-98.
Viterna, Jocelyn and Cassandra Robertson. 2015. “New Directions for the Sociology of
Development.” Annual Review of Sociology 41, no. 1: 243-69.
Wade, Robert. 2004. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in
East Asian Industrialization. Princeton: PUP.
• Chapters 1, 2, and conclusion
Woo-Cumings, Meredith. 1999. The Developmental State. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
• Chapters 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, and 10
Woolcock, Michael. 2010. “The Rise and Routinization of Social Capital: 1988-2008.” Annual
Review of Political Science 13: 469-87.
Yashar, Deborah. 1998. Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Movements and Democracy in Latin
America.” Comparative Politics 31. no. 1: 23-42.
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