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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

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49
Citations
18938
World Ranking
250
National Ranking
37

Economics and Finance

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49
Citations
18977
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Robert Hunter Wade is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of environmental science with sociology and political science, exploring several subfields including pollution, global and planetary change, electrical and electronic engineering, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass social acceptance of renewable energy, energy and environmental impacts, sustainability and climate change governance, integrated energy systems optimization, and also touch on medical research areas such as renal cell carcinoma treatment, economic and financial impacts of cancer, and pancreatic and hepatic oncology research.

Wade has contributed to multiple publications, with recent papers including:

  • "Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe," 2022, published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Reclaiming the Windy Commons: Landownership, Wind Rights, and the Assetization of Renewable Resources," 2022, published in Energies
  • "Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects," 2024, published in Geographica Helvetica
  • "100 Social Sciences and Humanities priority research questions for renewable energy in Horizon Europe," 2020, published in Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)
  • "Properties of air: Wind resourcification via assetization in the republic of Ireland," 2025, published in Environment and Planning E Nature and Space

Their frequent co-authors are Seweryn Krupnik, Aleksandra Wagner, Tadeusz Józef Rudek, Matúš Mišík, and Sanne Akerboom, each having collaborated on multiple occasions.

Wade's work is regularly published in venues including Energy Research & Social Science, Energies, Geographica Helvetica, Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, and Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz).

Best Publications

  • Governing the market: economic theory and the role of government in East Asian industrialization

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ‘development space’

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • The system of administrative and political corruption: Canal irrigation in South India

    Robert Wade

  • Making the World Development Report 2000: Attacking Poverty

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • The market for public office: Why the Indian state is not better at development

    Robert Wade;Robert Wade

  • The management of common property resources: collective action as an alternative to privatisation or state regulation

    Robert Wade

  • The Asian debt-and-development crisis of 1997-?: Causes and consequences

    Robert Wade

  • US hegemony and the World Bank: the fight over people and ideas

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency?

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • East Asia's Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence

    Robert Wade

  • Return of industrial policy

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • Emerging world order? From multipolarity to multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF

    Robert H. Wade

  • The Developmental State: Dead or Alive?

    Robert H. Wade

  • From global imbalances to global reorganisations

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • Financial regime change

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • After the Crisis: Industrial Policy and the Developmental State in Low‐Income Countries

    Robert Hunter Wade

  • From ‘Miracle’ to ‘Cronyism’: Explaining the Great Asian Slump

    Robert Wade

  • Protecting Power : How Western States Retain The Dominant Voice in The World Bank ’ s Governance

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  • Developmental States and Markets in East Asia: An Introduction

    Gordon White;Robert Wade

  • Wheels Within Wheels: Rethinking the Asian Crisis and the Asian Model

    Robert Wade

  • The management of irrigation systems: How to evoke trust and avoid prisoner's dilemma

    Robert Wade;Robert Wade

  • The gathering world slump and the battle over capital controls

    Frank Veneroso;Robert Wade

  • Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality

    Robert Hunter Wade

Frequent Co-Authors

José Antonio Ocampo
José Antonio Ocampo Columbia University
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
John Williamson
John Williamson Peterson Institute for International Economics
Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University
Gerald Epstein
Gerald Epstein University of Massachusetts Amherst

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