Unequal Education: The Origins of Elite Power in Contemporary Africa  [Introduction]

Paniagua, Victoria and Joan Ricart-Huguet. The Origins of Dual Malapportionment: Long-run Evidence from Argentina. Forthcoming at World Development. [PDF]

Ngom, Alioune and Joan Ricart-Huguet. Senegal: Between Democratic Consolidation and Political Instability. R&R at African Affairs.

Bastian Becker and Joan Ricart-Huguet. "Colonial Legacies of Social Policy." In: Armando Barrientos, Matthew Carnes, Huck-Ju Kwon, Herbert Obinger, Leila Patel, Carina Schmitt (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Policies in the Developing World, Oxford University Press.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan and Matthew Ribar.  "Indirect Rule and the Endurance of Traditional Governance in Africa." In: Anthony Diala  and Jan Erk (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Traditional Law and Governance in Africa, Oxford University Press.

Paine, Jack, Xiaoyan Qiu and Joan Ricart-Huguet. "Precolonial States, Geography, and Colonial Border Formation in Africa." In: Olivier Walther, Willie Eselebor, Inocent Moyo and Isabella Soi (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands.

Nikolova, Elena and Joan Ricart-Huguet. Roads to Independence and Economic Development: Learning from the Cases of Guinea, Mayotte, and Comoros.

Colomer, Josep and Joan Ricart-Huguet. The Medium-size Governance Trap.

Paine, Jack, Xiaoyan Qiu and Joan Ricart-Huguet. 2025. Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa. American Political Science Review, 119(1), 1-20. Lead Article. Open access. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Media: Broadstreet Blog, ZME Science, Newsbeezer, News24, África Mundi, Al Jazeera, SSRN Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science]

• • • "Most-influential Political Science and IR articles 2024" published by Cambridge University Press journals.

    • Luebbert Best Article Award in the field of Comparative Politics in the last two years.

Ricart-Huguet, Joan and Emily Sellars. 2023. The Politics of Decentralization Level: Local and Regional Devolution as Substitutes. World Politics, 75(2), 353–389. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data]

Baldwin, Kate and Joan Ricart-Huguet. 2023. Does Land Quality Increase the Power of Traditional Leaders in Contemporary Africa? The Journal of Politics, 85(1), 334-339. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan and Betsy Levy Paluck. 2023. When the Sorting Hat Sorts Randomly: A Natural Experiment on Culture. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 18(1), 39-73. Lead article. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Media: The Conversation, Scope Conditions]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2022. Why Do Different Cultures Form and Persist? Learning from the Case of Makerere University. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 60(4), 429-456. Lead article. [PDF] [Appendix] [Media: Africa at LSE, The Edge, Scope Conditions]

• • • Best Article award from the African Politics Conference Group (APCG) (2022).

    • David and Helen Kimble Prize for Best Article published in the Journal of Modern African Studies in 2022. 

McAlexander, Rick and Joan Ricart-Huguet. 2022. “State Disengagement: Evidence from French West Africa” International Studies Quarterly, 66(1), 1-14. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Media: ECPR's The Loop]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan.  2022. “The Origins of Colonial Investments in Former British and French Africa” British Journal of Political Science, 52(2), 736-757. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Media: Frontiers in African Economic History]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2021. "Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa" Comparative Political Studies, 54(14), 2546–2580. [PDF] [Appendix] [Data] [Media: Africa at LSE, Democracy in Africa, Broadstreet Blog, Oxfam report]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2021. Why Do Colonial Investments Persist Less in Anglophone than in Francophone Africa? Journal of Historical Political Economy, 1(4), 477-498. Lead article. [PDF] [Appendix] [Media: Africa at LSE]

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. [PDF] [Appendix]

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

Morales Arilla, José, Joan Ricart-Huguet, and Leonard Wantchekon. 2023. "Economic Development in Historical Political Economy." In Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2022. "The Political Consequences of Unequal Education in Africa." Newsletter of the Organized Section in Education Politics and Policy of the American Political Science Association, 2(2).

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2019. "The Historical Turn in the Comparative Study of Political Elites." In Eugene Finkel, Adria Lawrence, and Andrew Mertha, eds. CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, 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. A Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers. African Economic History Network. [PDF] [Media: Democracy in Africa]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. "Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier." By Bogdan G. Popescu. (Cambridge University Press, 2023.) To appear in Governance. [PDF]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2025. "Decentralised Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World." By Jean-Paul Faguet and Sarmistha Pal (Eds.). (LSE Press, 2023.) Public Administration Review, 85(2), 604-606. [PDF]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2023.  "Precolonial Legacies and Postcolonial Politics. Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. By Martha Wilfahrt." (Cambridge University Press, 2021.) The Journal of Development Studies. [PDF]

Ricart-Huguet, Joan. 2013. “Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia. By Jean-Paul Faguet.” (The University of Michigan Press, 2012.) The Journal of Politics, 75 (4) : E39. [PDF]