Robert H. Bates

Robert H. Bates

Faculty Associate (emeritus). Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Emeritus, Departments of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Robert H. Bates

Research interests: Political economy of development, particularly in Africa; and violence and state failure.

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