Ato Onoma is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. After receiving his PhD from Northwestern University, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His was featured in Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power, a collection of essays edited by James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen (Cambridge, 2010).

• 1. Divergent attitudes towards property rights institutions; 2. Explaining institutional choice and change; 3. Varying responses by Ghanian and Batswanaian state leaders; 4. Traditional leaders take charge in Akyem Abuakwa and Ga; 5. Making and then unmaking institutions in Kenya; 6. Endogenous contributions to institutional change; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: notes on field research.

Ato Onoma is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. After receiving his PhD from Northwestern University, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His was featured in Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power, a collection of essays edited by James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen (Cambridge, 2010).

• 1. Divergent attitudes towards property rights institutions; 2. Explaining institutional choice and change; 3. Varying responses by Ghanian and Batswanaian state leaders; 4. Traditional leaders take charge in Akyem Abuakwa and Ga; 5. Making and then unmaking institutions in Kenya; 6. Endogenous contributions to institutional change; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: notes on field research.

Ato Onoma is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. After receiving his PhD from Northwestern University, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. His was featured in Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power, a collection of essays edited by James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen (Cambridge, 2010).

• 1. Divergent attitudes towards property rights institutions; 2. Explaining institutional choice and change; 3. Varying responses by Ghanian and Batswanaian state leaders; 4. Traditional leaders take charge in Akyem Abuakwa and Ga; 5. Making and then unmaking institutions in Kenya; 6. Endogenous contributions to institutional change; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: notes on field research.