Acemoglu , Daron , and Robinson , James A. . 2006 . Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .

Acemoglu , Daron , and Robinson , James A. . 2012 . Why Nations Fail: Origins of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity . New York : Random House .

Acemoglu , Daron , García-Jimeno , Camilo , and Robinson , James A. . 2012 . Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-Run Development in Colombia . Journal of Comparative Economics 40 : 534 – 564 .

Acemoglu , Daron , Johnson , Simon , and Robinson , James A. . 2001 . The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation . American Economic Review 91 : 1369 – 1401 .

Allen , Robert C. , Murphy , Tommy E. , and Schneider , Eric B. . 2012 . The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labor Market Approach . Journal of Economic History 72 : 863 – 894 .

Ansell , Ben , and Samuels , David . 2010 . Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach . Comparative Political Studies 43 : 1543 – 1574 .

Atkinson , Anthony B. , and Brandolini , Andrea . 2001 . Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of ‘Secondary’ Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries as a Case Study . Journal of Economic Literature 39 : 771 – 799 .

Beck , Nathaniel , and Katz , Jonathan N. . 2011 . Modeling Dynamics in Time-Series–Cross-Section Political Economy Data . Annual Review of Political Science 14 : 331 – 352 .

Berlin , Ira . 1998 . Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press .

Bertocchi , Graziella , and Strozzi , Chiara . 2008 . International Migration and the Role of Institutions . Public Choice 137 : 81 – 102 .

Boix , Carles . 2003 . Democracy and Redistribution . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .

Boix , Carles . 2011 . Democracy, Development, and the International System . American Political Science Review 105 : 809 – 828 .

Braun , Sebastian , and Kvasnicka , Michael . 2013 . Men, Women, and the Ballot: Gender Imbalances and Suffrage Extensions in the United States . Explorations in Economic History 50 : 405 – 426 .

Breen , Timothy H. 1973 . A Changing Labor Force and Race Relations in Virginia 1660–1710 . Journal of Social History 7 : 3 – 25 .

Cameron , A. Colin , Gelbach , Jonah B. , and Miller , Douglas L. . 2008 . Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors . Review of Economics and Statistics 90 : 414 – 427 .

Carter , Susan B. et al. eds. 2006 . Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition (Online Version) . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .

Congleton , Roger D. 2010 . Perfecting Parliament . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .

Congleton , Roger D. . 2011 . Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Liberalism, and Constitutional Reform (working paper, West Virginia University, Morgantown, available at SSRN: . Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Liberalism, and Constitutional Reform (working paper, West Virginia University, Morgantown, available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2011874)

Cooper , William James . 2000 . Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 . Charleston : University of South Carolina Press .

Dinkin , Robert J. 1977 . Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689–1776 . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press .

Easterly , William . 2007 . Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment: Insights from a New Instrument . Journal of Development Economics 84 : 755 – 776 .

Einhorn , Robin L. 2008 . American Taxation, American Slavery . Chicago : University of Chicago Press .

Eltis , David , Lewis , Frank D. , and Richardson , David . 2005 . Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in the Caribbean, 1674–1807 . Economic History Review 58 : 673 – 700 .

Engerman , Stanley L. , and Sokoloff , Kenneth L. . 2000 . History Lessons: Institutions, Factors Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World . Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 : 217 – 232 .

Engerman , Stanley L. , and Sokoloff , Kenneth L. . 2002 . Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies . Economía 3 : 41 – 109 .

Engerman , Stanley L. , and Sokoloff , Kenneth L. . 2005 . The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World . Journal of Economic History 65 : 891 – 921 .

Fleck , Robert K. , and Hanssen , F. Andrew . 2006 . The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece . Journal of Law and Economics 49 : 115 – 146 .

Fleck , Robert K. , and Hanssen , F. Andrew . 2009 . Rulers Ruled by Women: An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights in Ancient Sparta . Economics of Governance 10 : 221 – 245 .

Fleck , Robert K. , and Hanssen , F. Andrew . 2013 . When Voice Fails: Potential Exit as a Constraint on Government Quality . International Review of Law and Economics 35 : 26 – 41 .

Food and Agriculture Organization . 2010 . FAO Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) 2010 Database. Available from . FAO Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) 2010 Database. Available from http://gaez.fao.org/Main.html , accessed 5 April 2012.

Freeman , John R. , and Quinn , Dennis P. . 2012 . The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered . American Political Science Review 106 : 58 – 80 .

Gleditsch , Kristian Skrede , and Ward , Michael D. . 2006 . Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization . International Organization 60 : 911 – 933 .

Gray , Lewis Cecil , and Thompson , Esther Katherine . 1933 . History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860 , Vol. 2 . Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington .

Grubb , Farley . 2000 . The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude: An Incomplete-Contract Approach . Explorations in Economic History 37 : 42 – 75 .

Haggard , Stephan , and Kaufman , Robert R. . 2012 . Inequality and Regime Change: Democratic Transitions and the Stability of Democratic Rule . American Political Science Review 106 : 495 – 516 .

Houle , Christian . 2009 . Inequality and Democracy . World Politics 61 : 589 – 622 .

Jack , William , and Lagunoff , Roger . 2006 . Dynamic Enfranchisement . Journal of Public Economics 90 : 551 – 572 .

Jones , Alice Hanson . 1980 . Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution . New York : Columbia University Press .

Jordan , David William . 2002 . Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632–1715 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .

Judson , Ruth A. , and Owen , Ann L. . 1999 . Estimating Dynamic Panel Data Models: A Guide for Macroeconomists . Economics Letters 65 : 9 – 15 .

Kenny , Lawrence W. 1999 . Explaining the Puzzle of Why Men Gave Women the Right to Vote (working paper, University of Florida, Gainesville).

Keyssar , Alexander . 2000 . The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States . New York : Basic Books .

Kulikoff , Allan . 1986 . Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press .

Kulikoff , Allan . 2000 . From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press .

Limongi , Fernando , and Przeworski , Adam . 1997 . Modernization: Theories and Facts . World Politics 49 : 155 – 183 .

Lipset , Seymour Martin . 1959 . Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy . American Political Science Review 53 : 69 – 105 .

Main , Jackson Turner . 1965 . The Social Structure of Revolutionary America . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press .

McKinley , Albert Edward . 1905 . The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen English Colonies in America . Boston, Mass. : Ginn and Co .

Morgan , Edmund S. 1975 . American Freedom, American Slavery: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia . New York : W. W. Norton .

Nash , Gary B. 1979 . The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press .

Nikolova , Elena . 2014 . Unexpected Lessons: The Political Economy of the Franchise in Colonial Virginia (working paper, EBRD, London, available at SSRN . Unexpected Lessons: The Political Economy of the Franchise in Colonial Virginia (working paper, EBRD, London, available at SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2474069)

North , Douglass C. , and Weingast , Barry R. . 1989 . Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England . Journal of Economic History 49 : 803 – 832 .

Nunn , Nathan , and Qian , Nancy . 2011 . The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from a Historical Experiment . Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 : 593 – 650 .

Olson , Mancur . 2000 . Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Capitalist and Communist Dictatorships . New York : Basic Books .

Pande , Rohini , and Udry , Christopher . 2005 . Institutions and Development: A View from Below . In: The Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society , edited by R. Blundell, W. Newey and T. Persson. Cambridge University Press ; 2005. pp. 349 – 403 .

Przeworski , Adam . 2009 . Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions . British Journal of Political Science 39 : 291 – 321 .

Purvis , Thomas L. 1999 . Colonial America to 1763 . New York : Infobase Publishing .

Rabushka , Alvin . 2002 . The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607–1700 . Policy Review 114 : 155 – 183 .

Ramcharan , Rodney . 2010 . Inequality and Redistribution: Evidence from US Counties and States, 1890–1930 . Review of Economics and Statistics 92 : 729 – 744 .

Risch , Erna . 1937 . Encouragement of Immigration as Revealed in Colonial Legislation . Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 45 : 1 – 10 .

Rosenbloom , Joshua . 2010 . Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U.S. Available from . Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U.S. Available from http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Rosenbloom.Indenture , accessed 5 April 2012.

Rusk , Jerrold G. 2001 . A Statistical History of the American Electorate . Chicago : University of Chicago .

Sowell , Thomas . 2013 . Black Rednecks & White Liberals . Jackson, Miss. : Encounter Books .

Surrency , Erwin C. 1967 . The Courts in the American Colonies . American Journal of Legal History 11 : 347 – 376 .

Vanhanen , Tatu . 2002 . Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries . London : Routledge .

Ward , Harry M. 1991 . Colonial America, 1607–1763 . London : Pearson College Division .