The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy

Jeffery A. Jenkins is a political scientist at the University of Southern California interested in American national institutions. Two of his recent books include: Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 (2020) with Boris Heersink-which won the 2021 V. O. Key Award and the 2021 J. David Greenstone Prize-and Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 (2021) with Justin Peck-which won the 2023 V. O. Key Award. He was Editor in Chief of The Journal of Politics (2015-2020) and recently started two new journals: the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2020) and the Journal of Historical Political Economy (2021). Jared Rubin is a professor of economics at Chapman University. His research focuses on historical relationships between political and religious institutions and their role in economic development. He is the author of two recent books, How the World Became Rich (with Mark Koyama, 2022) and Rulers, Religion, and Riches (2017). Rubin is Co-Director of Chapman University's Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society and President of the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture.

I. Historical Political Economy: An Overview

1. Historical Political Economy: What Is it?
Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California
Jared Rubin, Chapman University

2. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Historical Political Economy
Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology
Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago

3. Data in Historical Political Economy
Alexandra Cirone, Cornell University

4. Causal Inference and Knowledge Accumulation in Historical Political Economy
Anna Callis, University of California, Berkeley
Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley
Guadalupe Tuñón, Princeton University

5. Networks in Historical Political Economy
Adam Slez, University of Virginia

6. Formal Models and Historical Political Economy
Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley

7. Historical Persistence
Avidit Acharya, Stanford University
Matthew Blackwell, Harvard University
Maya Sen, Harvard University


II. How States are Organized

8. Democracy and Historical Political Economy
David Stasavage, New York University

9. Historical Political Economy of Autocracy
Evgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins University
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

10. Dynasties in Historical Political Economy
Brenda van Coppenolle, University of Essex
Daniel Smith, Columbia University

11. State Building in Historical Political Economy
Francisco Garfias, University of California, San Diego
Emily Sellars, Yale University

12. The Size of Polities in Historical Political Economy
Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University
Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore

13. State Capacity in Historical Political Economy
Mark Dincecco, University of Michigan
Yuhua Wang, Harvard University

14. Legal Capacity in Historical Political Econ
Mark Koyama, George Mason University

15. Political Legitimacy in Historical Political Economy
Avner Greif, Stanford University
Jared Rubin, Chapman University


III. Components of the State

16. Rules in Historical Political Economy
John Wallis, University of Maryland

17. Historical Political Economy of Legislative Power
Gary Cox, Stanford University

18. Courts: A Political Economy Perspective
Tom S. Clark, Emory University
Georg Vanberg, Duke University

19. Bureaucracies in Historical Political Economy
Jan P. Vogler, University of Konstanz

20. The Historical Political Economy of Political Parties
Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California
Christopher Kam, University of British Columbia

21. Electoral Systems in Historical Political Economy
Daniele Caramani, European University Institute, Florence, and University of Zurich

22. Property Rights in Historical Political Economy
Lee Alston, Indiana University
Bernardo Mueller, University of Brasília

23. Suffrage in Historical Political Economy
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University

24. Trade Policy in Historical Political Economy
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College

25. Taxation: A Historical Political Economy Approach
Pablo Beramendi, Duke University


IV. Long-Run Legacies

26. Economic Development in Historical Political Economy
Jose Morales-Arilla, Princeton University
Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland
Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University

27. The Historical Political Economy of Nationalism
Carles Boix, Princeton University

28. Long-Run Economic Legacies of Colonialism
Jenny Guardado, Georgetown University

29. The Historical Political Economy of Globalization
Kevin O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi

30. Civil and Ethnic Conflict in Historical Political Economy
Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

31. The Historical Political Economy of Financial Crises
Marc Weidenmier, Chapman University

32. The Corporation and the State in Historical Political Economy
Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University

33. Electoral Malfeasance in Historical Political Economy
Isabela Mares, Yale University

34. Assimilation in Historical Political Economy
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University


V. The State and Society

35. Race and Historical Political Economy
David Bateman, Cornell University
Jake Grumbach, University of Washington
Chloe Thurston, Northwestern University

36. In Search of Gender in Historical Political Economy
Dawn Teele, Johns Hopkins University
Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales

37. Identity in Historical Political Economy
Pavithra Suryanarayan, London School of Economics and Political Science
Steven White, Syracuse University

38. Historical Political Economy of Migration
Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

39. The Urban-Rural Divide in Historical Political Economy
Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University

40. Immigration in Historical Political Economy
Margaret Peters, University of California, Los Angeles

41. Market and Government Provision of Safety Nets and Social Welfare Spending in Historical Political Economy
Price Fishback, University of Arizona

42. The Historical Political Economy of Education
Agustina Paglayan, University of California, San Diego

43. Health in Historical Political Economy
James Feigenbaum, Boston University

44. Culture in Historical Political Economy
Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego

45. Church, State, and Historical Political Economy
Sascha O. Becker, Monash University
Steven Pfaff, University of Washington