Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- I Setting the Stage -- 1 The Development Puzzle -- II Governance Structure -- 2 Precolonial Centralization and Institutional Quality in Africa -- 3 Can Delegation Promote Fiscal Discipline in a Federation? Evidence from Fiscal Performance in the Indian States -- 4 The Political Economy of Education in Kenya -- III Institutional Quality, Property Rights, and Appropriation -- 5 A Theory of Corruption, Political Exclusion, and Windfalls -- 6 Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future -- 7 Information and Incomplete Investor Protection -- IV Norms and Culture -- 8 Islamic Resurgence and Social Violence during the Indonesian Financial Crisis -- 9 Social Identity and Redistributive Politics -- Index.