This article reviews the literature on historical persistence in political science and the related
social sciences. Historical persistence refers to causal effects that (a) operate over time …

A recent wave of research in political science examines the past using statistical methods for
causal inference and formal theory—a field widely known as historical political economy …

We document substantial increases in agricultural productivity, industrial output, and
peasants' nutrition in Imperial Russia as a result of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Before …

Reparations policies that seek to make amends for a harm incurred face exigent challenges.
In this article we focus on what makes reparations successful and what policy components …

Examining a key puzzle in the study of electoral violence, this study asks how elites organize
violence and why ordinary citizens participate. While existing theories of electoral violence …

How does land reform impact civil conflict? This article examines this question in the
prominent case of Peru by leveraging original data on all land expropriations under military …

Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property
rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those …

A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a'great leveller', this extraordinarily
original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian …

This survey discusses recent developments in the growing literature on the economic history
of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using novel data and modern empirical …

Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The
state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on …