Research

Regressive Redistribution: The Politics of Inequality in Post-Colonial Autocracies (In progress)

Hartnett, A. and M. Saleh (2025). ``Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power.'’American Political Science Review.. – Replication data available here – Previous Draft awarded Best Paper on Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusion (APSA Inequality Section 2021) and Best Paper Honorable Mention (APSA MENA Section 2022).
Cheng, Cindy, Joan Barceló, Allison Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, and Luca Messerschmidt. 2020. COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v1.0). Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0909-7 – Project website and data here
Hartnett, A. (2018) “The Effect of Refugee Integration on Migrant Labor in Jordan.” Review of Middle East Studies, 52(2): 263-282.

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.”

Hartnett, A.S. (2021). “The Arab Spring.” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. https://doi.org/ 10.1093/OBO/9780199756223-0337 (Peer-Reviewed)
Cammett, M., A.S. Hartnett, and G. Koehler-Derrick (2021). “Colonial Legacies and Welfare Provision in the Middle East and North Africa.” Oxford University Press Handbook on Politics of Muslim Societies, edited by Melani Cammett and Pauline Jones. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190931056.013.11 (Peer-Reviewed).

Hartnett, A. (2011) Entries for Energy Policy in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, and Qatar in Encyclopedia of Energy. Croton-on-Hudson, New York: Golson Media.

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.

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.