Barry R. Weingast

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PhD Economics California Institute of Technology
Bachelors Economics University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Barry Robert Weingast is an American political scientist and economist, who is currently the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Weingast's research concentrates on the relationship between politics and economics, particularly economic reform, regulation, and the political foundation of markets.

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Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England (1989) (4229)
Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control (1987) (2031)
The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development (1995) (2021)
The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs: A Neoclassical Approach to Distributive Politics (1981) (1699)
The role of institutions in the revival of trade: the law merchant (1990) (1570)
The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of the Law (1997) (1496)
Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control? Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission (1983) (1373)
The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets (1988) (1323)
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (2006) (1298)
Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China (1995) (1289)
STRUCTURE AND PROCESS, POLITICS AND POLICY: ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AND THE POLITICAL CONTROL OF AGENCIES (1989) (1122)
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild (1994) (1116)
Federalism as a Commitment to Reserving Market Incentives (1997) (1111)
Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: Federalism, Chinese style (2005) (1036)
The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power (1987) (959)
The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (2006) (787)
Structure-induced equilibrium and legislative choice (1981) (699)
A Rational Choice Perspective on Congressional Norms (1979) (588)
A Theory of Political Control and Agency Discretion (1989) (574)
Second generation fiscal federalism: The implications of fiscal incentives (2009) (553)
Political Preferences for the Pork Barrel: A Generalization (1981) (528)
Federalism as a commit-ment to preserving market incentives (1997) (506)
Positive theories of congressional institutions (1994) (465)
The congressional-bureaucratic system: a principal agent perspective (with applications to the SEC) (1984) (459)
From Federalism, Chinese Style, to Privatization, Chinese Style (1997) (412)
Uncovered Sets and Sophisticated Voting Outcomes with Implications for Agenda Institutions (1984) (371)
Constitutions as Governance Structures: The Political Foundations of Secure Markets (1993) (369)
Limited Access Orders in the Developing World: A New Approach to the Problems of Development (2007) (366)
China's Transition to Markets: Market Preserving Federalism, Chinese Style (1995) (340)
The Economic Role of Political Institutions (2000) (314)
7. Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: Constructing the European Community’s Internal Market (2019) (296)
The Democratic Advantage: Institutional Foundations of Financial Power in International Competition (2003) (267)
The Political Control of Bureaucracies under Asymmetric Information (1992) (265)
A positive theory of statutory interpretation (1992) (257)
Second Generation Fiscal Federalism: Political Aspects of Decentralization and Economic Development (2014) (251)
The Institutional Roots of American Trade Policy: Politics, Coalitions, and International Trade (1997) (233)
Self-Enforcing Federalism (2005) (209)
Violence and Social Orders: Contents (2009) (185)
Why are Congressional Committees Powerful? (1987) (183)
In the shadow of violence : politics, economics, and the problems of development (2012) (181)
The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict (2006) (173)
Political Solutions to Market Problems (1984) (164)
Violence and Social Orders: The Conceptual Framework (2009) (151)
Political Institutions and Financial Development (2007) (148)
Order, Disorder and Economic Change: Latin America vs. North America (2000) (148)
When Do Rules of Procedure Matter? (1984) (142)
Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism (2005) (141)
Second Generation Fiscal Federalism: Implications for Decentralized Democratic Governance and Economic Development (2006) (137)
The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Transition (1998) (130)
The Analytic Narrative Project (2000) (130)
Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 (1989) (127)
Political Institutions: Rational Choice Perspectives (1998) (126)
The American System of Shared Powers: The President, Congress, and the Nlrb (2000) (119)
Regulation, Reregulation, and Deregulation: The Political Foundations of Agency Clientele Relationships (1981) (118)
Self-Enforcing Constitutions: With an Application to Democratic Stability in America's First Century (2013) (117)
Tragic Brilliance: Equilibrium Party Hegemony in Mexico (2003) (112)
What Is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order (2012) (110)
Constitutions and Commitment: (98)
Reflections on Distributive Politics and Universalism (1994) (97)
The New Federalism: Can the States Be Trusted? (1997) (89)
A Rational Choice Perspective on the Role of Ideas: Shared Belief Systems and State Sovereignty in International Cooperation (1995) (86)
Institutionalizing Majority Rule: A Social Choice Theory with Policy Implications (1982) (80)
The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty (2005) (77)
Microfoundations of the Rule of Law (2013) (75)
Violence and the Rise of Open-Access Orders (2009) (75)
Political Stability and Civil War: (2020) (65)
Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development (1992) (63)
Constitutional Regulation of Legislative Choice: The Political Consequences of Judicial Deference to Legislatures (1988) (63)
Vicious Cycles: Endogenous Political Extremism and Political Violence (2000) (63)
Political Foundations of the Thrift Debacle (1991) (63)
Floor Behavior in the U.S. Congress: Committee Power Under the Open Rule (1989) (62)
The Performance and Stability of Federalism: An Institutional Perspective (2008) (59)
Chapter 13. Fiscal Federalism, Good Governance, and Economic Growth in Mexico (2003) (59)
A Comparative Theory of Federalism: India (1997) (58)
The Violence Trap: A Political-Economic Approach to the Problems of Development (2015) (57)
Tragic Brilliance : Equilibrium Hegemony And Democratization in Mexico (2003) (56)
Politcs and the Courts: A Positive Theory of Judicial Doctrine and the Rule of Law (1995) (53)
Legislative Intent: The Use of Positive Political Theory in Statutory Interpretation (1994) (51)
The Rule of Law Unplugged (2009) (51)
Institutions, State Activism, and Economic Development: A Comparison of State‐Owned and Township‐Village Enterprises in China (1998) (49)
Authoritarian Survival and Poverty Traps: Land Reform in Mexico (2014) (49)
Law without the State (2013) (48)
Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule-of-law (2013) (46)
The Positive Political Theory of Legislative History: New Perspectives on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its Interpretation (2003) (45)
Limited Access Orders: An Introduction to the Conceptual Framework (2013) (44)
Positive and Normative Models of Procedural Rights: An Integrative Approach to Administrative Procedures (1990) (41)
Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia (2007) (40)
Fiscal Challenges: Dysfunctional or Optimal Institutions? State Debt Limitations, the Structure of State and Local Governments, and the Finance of American Infrastructure (2008) (38)
The Reach of Political Economy (2008) (38)
Positive Canons: The Role of Legislative Bargains in Statutory Interpretation (1992) (37)
Crisis Bureaucracy: Homeland Security and the Political Design of Legal Mandates (2006) (36)
A theory of the politically independent judiciary: A comparative study of the United States and Argentina (2011) (36)
The Democratic Advantage: The Institutional Sources of State Power in International Competition (1996) (36)
The New Separation‐of‐Powers Approach to American Politics (2008) (34)
Rationality, Inaccurate Mental Models, and Self-confirming Equilibrium (2006) (32)
Analytic Narratives Revisited (2000) (32)
Constitutions as Coordinating Devices (2013) (31)
The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Transition (1998) (31)
Constructing Self-Enforcing Democracy in Spain (2004) (31)
The Political Economy of Land Use Regulation (1982) (29)
Elements of a Theory of Jurisdictional Change (1995) (28)
Executive Constraint, Political Stability and Economic Growth (2015) (28)
Democratization and the Economy in Mexico: Equilibrium (PRI) Hegemony and its Demise (2001) (27)
Taobao, Federalism, and the Emergence of Law, Chinese Style (2018) (26)
Agenda Control in Congress: Evidence from Cutpoint Estimates and Ideal Point Uncertainty (2010) (26)
The Analytical Narrative Project The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2007) (24)
Preferences and Situations (2007) (24)
Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens (2015) (24)
Exposing the neoclassical fallacy: McCloskey on ideas and the great enrichment (2016) (23)
Capitalism, Democracy, and Countermajoritarian Institutions (2015) (23)
Executive Constraint, Political Stability, and Economic Growth (2018) (23)
The economic incidence of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the short-haul pricing constraint (1990) (23)
Rational choice theories of bureaucratic control and performance (2001) (22)
Douglass C. North's Contributions to Economics and Economic History (1994) (22)
Ideas, Interest, and Credible Commitments in the American Revolution (2000) (20)
The State and Development (2006) (20)
Courts in Latin America: A Theory of the Politically Independent Judiciary (2011) (20)
Adam Smith's Constitutional Theory (2017) (19)
Limited Access Orders: Rethinking the Problems of Development and Violence (2009) (19)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England (1996) (18)
Democracy and the Rule of Law: A Postscript to “Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law” (2003) (18)
Introduction: Institutional Analysis and Economic History (2000) (18)
Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing (2013) (18)
Why so much stability? Majority voting, legislative institutions, and Gordon Tullock (2012) (17)
The “Reformation of Administrative Law” Revisited (2015) (16)
Persistent Inefficiency: Adam Smith’s Theory of Slavery and Its Abolition in Western Europe (2016) (16)
In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons for Limited Access Societies (2012) (15)
1 Intersections Between Historical and Rational Choice (2005) (15)
Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Economic Rebalancing (2013) (15)
The Political Economy of Law: Decision-Making by Judicial, Legislative, Executive and Administrative Agencies (2007) (14)
In the Shadow of Violence (2013) (13)
Policy Consequences of Government by Congressional Subcommittees (1985) (13)
Slack, Public Interest, and Structure-Induced Policy (1990) (12)
The Fiscal Interest Approach: The Design of Tax and Transfer Systems (2013) (12)
Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition (2002) (12)
Lessons: In the Shadow of Violence (2013) (11)
Biological Institutions: The Political Science of Animal Cooperation (2013) (11)
RUNAWAY BUREAUCRACY AND CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT: WHY REFORMS FAIL (1982) (11)
The Constitutional Choices of 1787 and Their Consequences (2010) (11)
War, Trade, and Mercantilism: Reconciling Adam Smith's Three Theories of the British Empire (2018) (11)
Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions: The Role of Power and Constitutional Design in Self-Enforcing Democracy (2012) (11)
Adam Smith's Theory of Violence and the Political-Economics of Development (2017) (10)
Consumer product safety. (1980) (9)
Deriving 'General Principles' in Adam Smith: The Ubiquity of Equilibrium and Comparative Statics Analysis Throughout His Works (2017) (9)
Endogenous Institutions: Law as a Coordinating Device (2011) (9)
Is Development Uniquely Modern? Athens on the Doorstep (2015) (9)
Self-Enforcing Constitutions: With an Application to American Democratic Stability (2002) (8)
An Equilibrium Alternative to the Study of Culture (2006) (8)
Congress and Regulatory Agency Choice: Reply [Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control? Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission] (1986) (8)
Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep (2019) (8)
Democratic stability as a self-enforcing equilibrium (1997) (8)
Development and Political Theory in Classical Athens (2015) (8)
Congress as the (1982) (7)
Banking Reform: Economic Propellants, Political Impediments (1992) (7)
Law without Coercion: Examining the Role of Law in Coordinating Collective Punishment (2011) (7)
The role of credible commitments in state finance (1990) (7)
Review: The Analytical Narrative Project (2007) (7)
Constitutional Stability and the Deferential Court (2010) (7)
The Performance and Stability of Federalism, Mexican Style: An Institutionalist Perspective (2003) (7)
Adam Smith ’ s Theory of the Persistence of Slavery And its Abolition in Western Europe (2015) (7)
From 'The Lowest State of Poverty and Barbarism' to the Opulent Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Theory of Violence and the Political Economics of Development (2015) (7)
Douglass North’s Theory of Politics (2016) (7)
The Failure to Transplant Democracy, Markets, and the Rule of Law into the Developing World (2011) (7)
Adam Smith's Industrial Organization of Religion: Explaining the Medieval Church's Monopoly and Its Breakdown in the Reformation (2015) (7)
Title Why China's economic reforms differ: the M-form hierarchy and entry/expansion of the non-state sector (1993) (6)
Congress: The Genesis of the Thrift Crisis (1990) (6)
Equilibrium federal impotence: why the states and not the American national government financed economic development in the antebellum era (2018) (5)
Executive Opportunism, Presidential Signing Statements, and the Separation of Powers (2016) (5)
Solving the Authoritarian’s Legal Dilemma Through the Private Provision of Law (2020) (5)
Creating a Self-Stabilizing Constitution: The Role of the Takings Clause (2015) (5)
In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons (2012) (5)
13. Agenda Manipulation, Strategic Voting, and Legislative Details in the Compromise of 1850 (2002) (5)
Analytic Narratives, Case Studies, and Development (2016) (5)
Why are Developing Countries so Resistant to the Rule of Law (2009) (4)
A representative legislature and regulatory agency capture (1978) (4)
The Many, Diverse 'Main Points' of Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations (2018) (4)
Structure and Stability of Federalism Indian Style 2 Partisan Politics and the Structure and Stability Of Federalism , Indian Style (2003) (4)
Tribal-State Relations in the Anglosphere (2014) (4)
The Sparta Game: Violence, Proportionality, Austerity, Collapse (2016) (4)
The Medieval Expansion of Long-Distance Trade: Adam Smith on the Town's Escape from the Violent and Low-Growth Feudal Equilibrium (2016) (3)
Collective Punishment: A Coordination Account of Legal Order (2011) (3)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Symbolic Gesture or Rational Guarantee (2006) (3)
In the Shadow of Violence: A New Perspective on Development (2015) (3)
University of Southern California Law From the (2017) (3)
From Limited Access to Open Access Order in Chile, Take Two (2012) (3)
A Fiscal Interest Approach to Subnational Government Incentives (2015) (3)
In the Shadow of Violence: Limited Access Orders (2012) (3)
Self-Enforcing Federalism: Solving The Two Fundamental Dilemmas (2008) (3)
Congress and Regulatory Agency Choice: Reply to Muris (1986) (3)
Adam Smith’s Theory of Violence and the Political Economics of Development (2017) (3)
The Paradox of Expansionist Statutory Interpretations (2006) (3)
Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering? (2016) (3)
Discussion Draft : Comments Welcome Second Generation Fiscal Federalism : Implications for Decentralized Democratic Governance and Economic Development (2006) (2)
Rethinking Mass and Elite: Decision-Making in the Athenian Law-Courts (2016) (2)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: An Instrumental Interpretation (2007) (2)
Distributive and Ideological Policies in the U.S. House (2008) (2)
Violence and Social Orders: Open Access Orders (2009) (2)
Strategically Speaking: A New Analysis of Presidents Going Public (2004) (2)
Opening Access, Ending the Violence Trap: Labor, Business, Government and the National Labor Relations Act (2016) (2)
Engineering the Modern Administrative State, Part I: Political Accommodation and Legal Strategy in the New Deal Era (2019) (2)
A Political Approach to the Assignment of Powers in a Federal System (2001) (2)
Reconstructing Adam Smith's Politics (2018) (2)
Analytic Narratives and Case Studies (2022) (1)
Twentieth Century America as a Developing Country: Conflict, Institutional Change, and the Evolution of Public Law (2019) (1)
Violence and Social Orders: Preface (2009) (1)
Adam Smith's 'General Principles of Law and Government': Istvan Hont's Contribution (2017) (1)
Violence and Social Orders: A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences (2009) (1)
Violence and Social Orders: The Natural State (2009) (1)
1. Political Institutions and Financial Development (2007) (1)
The 'Reformation of Administrative Law' Revisited (2015) (1)
Endogenous Bias in Ideal Point Estimates (2011) (1)
RATIONAL CHOICE EXPLANATIONS OF SOCIAL FACTS (2010) (1)
Change and Continuity in a Limited Access Order (2012) (1)
Is Administrative Law Inevitable (2009) (1)
‘ Natural ’ States and the Development of Democracy (2013) (1)
Overview Of Political Economy (2011) (1)
A Neglected Element of Adam Smith ’ s Theory of the State : The Implications of Military Competition for State Capacity (2018) (1)
The Untold Story of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: How the GOP Helped the Democrats Destroy the Solid South (2006) (1)
The Sparta Game (2018) (1)
The “ Reformation of Administrative Law ” Revisited 1 (2015) (1)
Ending a Century of Violent Labor Conflict: A New Perspective on Unionization and the National Labor Relations Act (2015) (1)
Persistent inefficiency (2020) (0)
Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep (2019) (0)
Work ( s ) : Analytic Narratives by (2007) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of Polictical Economy (2006) (0)
A Spatial Theory of the Politically Independent Judiciary: A Comparative Study of the United States and Argentina DRAFT (2009) (0)
Deriving “ General Principles ” : The ubiquity of equilibrium and comparative statics analysis in the works of Adam Smith (2018) (0)
Fenno on the House Appropriations Committee's Success: (Or, How to Construct a Nash Equilibrium Without Really Trying) (2015) (0)
Reviews WHEN GREAT ECONOMISTS KNOW A LOT ABOUT HISTORY (2015) (0)
Liberty and the neoclassical fallacy (2023) (0)
Deriving ‘general principles’ 1 (2020) (0)
The Myth of Demócratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient. By Wittman Donald. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 240p. $29.95 (1996) (0)
The American Congress Reader: The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power (2008) (0)
Fortifications and Democracy in the Ancient Greek World (2017) (0)
Capitalism and Economic Liberty: The Political Foundations of Economic Growth (2007) (0)
The Medieval Expansion of Long-Distance Trade: Adam Smith on the Towns’ Escape from the Violent, Feudal Equilibrium (2019) (0)
The Booth School of Business , University of Chicago Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice : The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Author ( s ) : (2017) (0)
The Financing of 19th Century Internal Improvements - eScholarship (2005) (0)
Off-the-Path Behavior: (2020) (0)
Is Administrative Law Inevitable? - eScholarship (2009) (0)
DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (2006) (0)
Capitalism and Economic Liberty: (0)
Understanding Adam Smith’s 'General Principles of Law and Politics': A Linear Reconstruction of Istvan Hont's Contribution (2018) (0)
Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without (Some) Private Enforcement? (2018) (0)
Limited Government and Liberal Markets: (2021) (0)
Margaret Levi: Institutions, Individuals, Organizations, and Trust in Democratic Regimes (2004) (0)
The Financing of 19th Century Internal Improvements (2005) (0)
Draft : Comments Welcome Ideas , Interests , and Credible Commitments in the American Revolution (2013) (0)
Adam Smith's Theory of the State: The Logic of Military Competition and Its Implications for State Capacity (2018) (0)
Preserving Market Incentives (2016) (0)
A Discussion of Josiah Ober’s The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (2016) (0)
Violence and Social Orders: The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders: The Doorstep Conditions (2009) (0)
Violence and Social Orders: The Natural State Applied: English Land Law (2009) (0)
From High to Low Stakes Politics: Should Majoritarians Embrace Countermajoritarian Constitutional Provisions? (2018) (0)
Violence and Social Orders: References (2009) (0)
Responses to Disaster: Planning for a Great Earthquake in California (1977) (0)
Countermajoritarian Institutions and Constitutional Stability (2012) (0)
Using Markets to Evaluate Policy: The Case of the Iraq War (2004) (0)
New Understanding of the American Revolution Rationality, Inaccurate Mental Models, and Self-confirming Equilibrium : A (2011) (0)
Privatizing Law: Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium without Private Ordering? (2017) (0)
Judicial review as a self-stabilizing constitutional mechanism (2018) (0)
Rational Choice and Freudian Accounts of Cooperation (2015) (0)
Political Institutions and Financial Development: A Summary (2013) (0)
Political discourses across thirteen countries (2006) (0)
Analytic Narratives (2020) (0)
Violence and Social Orders: The Transition Proper (2009) (0)
Conflict, Institutions, and Public Law: Reflections on the United States as a Developing Country (2019) (0)
A Positive Theory of the Rule of Law (2021) (0)
Comparative Constitutional Design: Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions (2012) (0)
What is Law? A Coordination Account of the Characteristics of Legal Order (2012) (0)
Why so much stability? Majority voting, legislative institutions, and Gordon Tullock (2012) (0)
Barry R. Weingast Recommends “Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective” by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (2019) (0)
How Adam Smith Negotiated Leave from Oxford: A Game-Theoretic Account (2018) (0)
of Congressional Institutions (2016) (0)
The New Separation of Powers: Integrating the Study of American Politics (2006) (0)

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