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| Now out of never: The element of surprise in the East European revolution of 1989 T Kuran World politics 44 (1), 7-48, 1991 | 1495 | 1991 |
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| Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution T Kuran Public choice 61 (1), 41-74, 1989 | 1045 | 1989 |
| The long divergence T Kuran The Long Divergence, 2012 | 845 | 2012 |
| Structure and example in modular political phenomena: The diffusion of bulldozer/rose/orange/tulip revolutions MR Beissinger Perspectives on politics 5 (2), 259-276, 2007 | 764 | 2007 |
| Islam and mammon T Kuran Islam and Mammon, 2010 | 745 | 2010 |
| Why the Middle East is economically underdeveloped: historical mechanisms of institutional stagnation T Kuran Journal of economic perspectives 18 (3), 71-90, 2004 | 592 | 2004 |
| The provision of public goods under Islamic law: Origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system T Kuran Law and Society Review, 841-898, 2001 | 511 | 2001 |
| Islamic economics and the Islamic subeconomy T Kuran Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (4), 155-173, 1995 | 475 | 1995 |
| Medical applications of hydroxyapatite H Aoki Ishiyaku Euro America, 13-74, 1994 | 458 | 1994 |
| In defense of affirmative action BR Bergmann Basic Books, 1996 | 446 | 1996 |
| Ethnic norms and their transformation through reputational cascades T Kuran The Journal of Legal Studies 27 (S2), 623-659, 1998 | 333 | 1998 |
| The Islamic commercial crisis: institutional roots of economic underdevelopment in the Middle East T Kuran The Journal of Economic History 63 (2), 414-446, 2003 | 306 | 2003 |
| Islam and underdevelopment: an old puzzle revisited T Kuran Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)/Zeitschrift für …, 1997 | 290 | 1997 |
| Preference falsification, policy continuity and collective conservatism T Kuran The Economic Journal 97 (387), 642-665, 1987 | 278 | 1987 |
| The inevitability of future revolutionary surprises T Kuran American Journal of Sociology 100 (6), 1528-1551, 1995 | 269 | 1995 |
| The absence of the corporation in Islamic law: origins and persistence T Kuran The American Journal of Comparative Law 53 (4), 785-834, 2005 | 254 | 2005 |
| The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism T Kuran Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 10 (2), 143-171, 1988 | 234 | 1988 |
| The economic system in contemporary Islamic thought: Interpretation and assessment T Kuran International Journal of Middle East Studies 18 (2), 135-164, 1986 | 224 | 1986 |
