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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"State strength"”.
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Policy reform in weak states : the challenge of subsidy cuts in Latin America
… they depend on a functioning bureaucratic state apparatus for implementation. This article widens the lens of inquiry, theorizing that the presence of a Weberian bureaucracy creates the institutional preconditions that allow leaders latitude in designing and implementing politically optimal …
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The Military, Economy and the State: A New International System Analysis
… stratification systems that emerge within nation states because of their global social location. I present my detailed case for amending Wallerstein's World-Systems Analysis by empirically incorporating the interplay of the military, economy and state as opposed to his primarily economic division …
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Ontological Security: State Identity and Self-Image in the Digital Age
The driving argument of this thesis is that states, particularly the United States, are vulnerable in cyberspace for reasons that go beyond the material vulnerabilities that present studies on state insecurity in cyberspace focus on. This vulnerability in cyberspace is an ontological insecurity. …
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Characterization and performance of eco and crack-free high-performance concrete for sustainable infrastructure
… binder systems to material performance in fresh state (rheological properties) and hardened state (strength gain and shrinkage cracking tendency). Results indicate that it is possible to design Eco-HPC with drying shrinkage lower than 300 µstrain after 250 days and no restrained shrinkage …
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The effectiveness of a percussion drill method for making concrete cube samples to assess the characteristics of precast zero-slump concrete
… in variation in the density and compressive strength results. Therefore, there is a need for a simple, standardised quality control method that considers the compaction achieved by precast machines. A suitable procedure was pursued with the following specific objectives; i) to formulate a …