Research
Book Manuscript
- Regressive Redistribution: The Politics of Inequality in Post-Colonial Autocracies (In progress)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Working Papers
- Hartnett, A.S. and M. Saleh. ``The Other First Wave: Elite Conflict and Democratization in Agrarian Autocracies.’’ CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP20260. Published online May 17, 2025. Under Review.
- Mohamed, A.E. and A.S. Hartnett. ``Strategic Indoctrination and Political Control: The Case of Religious Schooling.’’ Under Review.
- Hartnett, A.S. and M.Z. Rogers. ``Authoritarian Malapportionment.’’
- Moshrif, R., M. Saleh, and A.S. Hartnett. ``Redistribution Without Inclusion: Land Reform and Political Turnover in Egypt, 1924–1976.’’
- Hartnett, A.S. ``After the Commons: Economic Opportunity and Colonial Legacies of Land Privatization.’’
- Hartnett, A.S., T. Babalola, J. Sakr. “In the Eye of the Beholder: Proximity to Power and the Relativity of Regime Type.”
- “In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise and the State in Jordan.” with Kristin Fabbe (Harvard Business School) and Steve Monroe (Yale-NUS).
- “Transfers, Trust, and Rural Populism: Evidence from Poland.” with Alexander Gard-Murray.
- “The Colonial Origins of State Repression in MENA.’’ with Elizabeth Nugent (Princeton) and Nicholas Lotito (Princeton).
- “Selectorate Dynamics in Autocracies: colonial and post-colonial minister appointments in the Middle East and North Africa.”
- “Surviving Decolonization: Elite Expropriation and Autocratic Leader Tenure in Post-Colonial Contexts.”
Book Chapters
Encyclopedia Entries
- Hartnett, A. (2011) Entries for Energy Policy in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, and Qatar in Encyclopedia of Energy. Croton-on-Hudson, New York: Golson Media.
Book Reviews
- Hartnett, A. (2014) Review of Globalization & Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism and Social Justice, 2nd ed. by Valentine Moghadam. St. Antony’s International Review, 10(1): 135-37.
Policy Papers, Opinion Pieces, and Essays
- Allison Spencer Hartnett, Ezzeldeen al-Natour, Laith al-Ajlouni. “Drastic Measures: Coercive Enforcement and Economic Effects of Pandemic Suppression in Jordan,” POMEPS Collection: The COVID-19 Pandemic in North Africa and the Middle East, April, 2020.
- Laith Fakhri Al-Ajlouni, Allison Spencer Hartnett. “Making the Economy Political in Jordan’s Tax Revolts,” Middle East Report Online, February 24, 2019.
- “Colonial Legacies of Uneven State Development in MENA,” POMEPS Collection on Social Policy in the Middle East, October 19, 2018.
- “Can Jordan’s New Prime Minister Reform the Government?” The Monkey Cage Blog, The Washington Post, June 13, 2018.
- Wilson, G and Hartnett, A. Guidance on Fragile States for the Stabilisation Unit. United Kingdom Department for International Development, June 2016.
- Hartnett, A. Protest, Unrest and State-Society Relations. International Peace Institute, June 2014.