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 CaliforniaJared Rubin, Chapman University 2. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Historical Political EconomyTracy Dennison, California Institute of TechnologyScott Gehlbach, University of Chicago 3. Data in Historical Political EconomyAlexandra Cirone, Cornell University 4. Causal Inference and Knowledge Accumulation in Historical Political Economy Anna Callis, University of California, BerkeleyThad Dunning, University of California, BerkeleyGuadalupe Tuñón, Princeton University 5. Networks in Historical Political EconomyAdam Slez, University of Virginia 6. Formal Models and Historical Political EconomySean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley 7. Historical PersistenceAvidit Acharya, Stanford UniversityMatthew Blackwell, Harvard UniversityMaya Sen, Harvard University II. How States are Organized 8. Democracy and Historical Political EconomyDavid Stasavage, New York University 9. Historical Political Economy of AutocracyEvgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins UniversityAnna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University 10. Dynasties in Historical Political EconomyBrenda van Coppenolle, University of EssexDaniel Smith, Columbia University 11. State Building in Historical Political EconomyFrancisco Garfias, University of California, San DiegoEmily Sellars, Yale University 12. The Size of Polities in Historical Political EconomyChiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore 13. State Capacity in Historical Political EconomyMark Dincecco, University of MichiganYuhua Wang, Harvard University 14. Legal Capacity in Historical Political EconMark Koyama, George Mason University 15. Political Legitimacy in Historical Political EconomyAvner Greif, Stanford UniversityJared Rubin, Chapman University III. Components of the State 16. Rules in Historical Political EconomyJohn Wallis, University of Maryland 17. Historical Political Economy of Legislative PowerGary Cox, Stanford University 18. Courts: A Political Economy PerspectiveTom S. Clark, Emory UniversityGeorg Vanberg, Duke University 19. Bureaucracies in Historical Political EconomyJan P. Vogler, University of Konstanz 20. The Historical Political Economy of Political PartiesJeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern CaliforniaChristopher Kam, University of British Columbia 21. Electoral Systems in Historical Political EconomyDaniele Caramani, European University Institute, Florence, and University of Zurich 22. Property Rights in Historical Political EconomyLee Alston, Indiana UniversityBernardo Mueller, University of Brasília 23. Suffrage in Historical Political EconomyWalker Hanlon, Northwestern University 24. Trade Policy in Historical Political EconomyDouglas Irwin, Dartmouth College 25. Taxation: A Historical Political Economy ApproachPablo Beramendi, Duke University IV. Long-Run Legacies 26. Economic Development in Historical Political EconomyJose Morales-Arilla, Princeton UniversityJoan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University MarylandLeonard Wantchekon, Princeton University 27. The Historical Political Economy of NationalismCarles Boix, Princeton University 28. Long-Run Economic Legacies of ColonialismJenny Guardado, Georgetown University 29. The Historical Political Economy of GlobalizationKevin O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi 30. Civil and Ethnic Conflict in Historical Political EconomySaumitra Jha, Stanford University 31. The Historical Political Economy of Financial CrisesMarc Weidenmier, Chapman University 32. The Corporation and the State in Historical Political EconomyRon Harris, Tel Aviv University 33. Electoral Malfeasance in Historical Political EconomyIsabela Mares, Yale University 34. Assimilation in Historical Political EconomyVasiliki Fouka, Stanford University V. The State and Society 35. Race and Historical Political EconomyDavid Bateman, Cornell UniversityJake Grumbach, University of WashingtonChloe Thurston, Northwestern University 36. In Search of Gender in Historical Political EconomyDawn Teele, Johns Hopkins University Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales 37. Identity in Historical Political EconomyPavithra Suryanarayan, London School of Economics and Political ScienceSteven White, Syracuse University 38. Historical Political Economy of MigrationVolha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 39. The Urban-Rural Divide in Historical Political EconomyJonathan Rodden, Stanford University 40. Immigration in Historical Political EconomyMargaret Peters, University of California, Los Angeles 41. Market and Government Provision of Safety Nets and Social Welfare Spending in Historical Political EconomyPrice Fishback, University of Arizona 42. The Historical Political Economy of EducationAgustina Paglayan, University of California, San Diego 43. Health in Historical Political EconomyJames Feigenbaum, Boston University 44. Culture in Historical Political EconomySara Lowes, University of California, San Diego 45. Church, State, and Historical Political EconomySascha O. Becker, Monash UniversitySteven Pfaff, University of Washington