Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2020. “The Origins of Colonial Investments in Former British and French Africa” Keywords: colonialism, public investments, regional inequality, Africa, pre-colonial trade, geography. Forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2019. “Who Governs? Colonial Education and Regional Political Inequality in Africa” Keywords: political elites, cabinets, colonialism, education, regional inequality, Africa.

McAlexander, Rick and Joan Ricart-Huguet. 2020. “State Disengagement: Evidence from Former French West Africa” Keywords: colonial state, conflict, public investments, taxation, West Africa, chiefs. R&R at International Studies Quarterly.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan and Betsy Levy Paluck. 2019. “When the Sorting Hat Sorts Randomly: A Natural Experiment on Culture” Keywords: culture, natural experiment, elites, socialization, identity, Uganda, Makerere University. R&R at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2019. "Why Do Different Cultures Emerge and Persist in a Shared Institutional Environment? Learning from a Natural Experiment at Makerere University" Keywords: culture, institutions, socialization, identity, elites, Uganda, Makerere University.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan and Emily Sellars. 2020. Strategic Decentralization: Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes. Keywords: decentralization, federalism, economies of scale, political conflict, developing countries. Available upon request.

Baldwin, Kate and Joan Ricart-Huguet. 2020. The Power of Traditional Leaders in Africa: Beyond State-Centric Explanations. Keywords: Africa; traditional leaders; chiefs; political development; ecology; agricultural land. Available upon request.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2019. "The Historical Turn in the Comparative Study of Political Elites." Newsletter of the APSA Comparative Politics Section: 29(2).

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2019. Democracy and development in Africa since the 1960s. In: Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds.), The History of African Development, African Economic History Network (AEHN).

Ricart-Huguet, Joan, and Elliott Green. 2018. “Taking It Personally: The Effect of Ethnic Attachment on Preferences for Regionalism” Studies in Comparative International Development 53 (1) : 67-89.

Weinreb, Jason, and Joan Ricart-Huguet. 2014. “A correction to Potters and van Winden (1992)” Public Choice 159 (1) : 23–26.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2013. “Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia. By Jean-Paul Faguet” Journal of Politics 75 (4) : E39. (book review)