De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

2001 • 7,273 citations

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events

1989 • 6,966 citations

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply

2012 • 6,577 citations

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

2002 • 2,482 citations

Political Parties : A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy

1911 • 1,448 citations

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

2005 • 1,358 citations

Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions

1999 • 931 citations

The Strange Career of Jim Crow.

1955 • 790 citations

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

2007 • 360 citations

Old South, New South: Revolutions In The Southern Economy Since The Civil War

1986 • 350 citations

Policy Persistence

1999 • 148 citations

Reversal of Fortune

2002 • 113 citations

Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions

2006 • 103 citations

PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS AND GROWTH AS POLITICAL EQUILIBRIA

2008 • 74 citations