Robert H. Bates
Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies
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Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Barker Center
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617 495 9889
Fax: 617 495 6849
Email: robert.bates.harvard.edu at gmail.com
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Biography
Robert H. Bates is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the political economy of development, particularly in Africa, and on violence and state failure. Bates has conducted field work in Zambia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Columbia and Brazil Before coming to Harvard, he held faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology and Duke University and been a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Nairobi, the Institute for Social Research of the University of Zambia, and Fedesarrollo in Bogota, Columbia. Bates currently serves as a researcher and resource person with the Africa Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi; as a member of the Political Instability Task Force of the United States Government; and as Professeur associe, School of Economics, University of Toulouse, where he has taught since 2000-- Among his most recent books are Analytic Narratives with Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999 and Prosperity and Violence, W.W. Norton, 2001
Recent Publications
"Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa," Working Paper 12610, Robert H. Bates, John H. Coatsworth, and Jeffrey G. Williamson. National Bureau of Economic Research: Cambridge, MA (October, 2006)
"Political Predation and Economic Development," Jean Paul Azam, Robert Bates, and Bruno Biais
"Order, Conflict and Violence," Robert Bates; (forthcoming) Tarek Masoud and Stathis Kalyvas, eds., New Haven, CT: Yale University Press [The chapter represents an extension of Bates, Robert H., Greif, Avner and Singh, Smita 2002. "Organizing violence," Journal of Conflict Resolution 46: 599-628]
"Political Reform," Robert H. Bates, Chapter 10 of volume 1, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000; Benno Ndulu, Stephen O'Connell, Robert Bates, Paul Collier and Charles Soludo, eds. (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
"Politcal Conflict and State Failure," Robert H. Bates, Chapter 7 of volume 1, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000; Benno Ndulu, Stephen O'Connell, Robert Bates, Paul Collier and Charles Soludo, eds. (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
"Endogenizing Syndromes," Paul Collier and Robert Bates w/Anke Hoeffler and Steve O'Connell, Chapter 11 of volume 1, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000; Benno Ndulu, Stephen O'Connell, Robert Bates, Paul Collier and Charles Soludo, eds. (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
"Ethnicity," Robert H. Bates, The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, David Clark, ed. (revised, January 2005)
"Domestic Interests and Control Regimes," Robert H. Bates, Chapter 4 of volume 1, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000; Benno Ndulu, Stephen O'Connell, Robert Bates, Paul Collier and Charles Soludo, eds. (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)