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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"state capacity"”.
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On Mass Media, State Capacity, And Civil Conflict
State capacity scholars contend that a state's capabilities objectively predict its likelihood of civil conflict onset. The state capacity literature argues that the likelihood of civil conflict increases when military strength, regime revenue, and/or political institution coherence decrease. …
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Attalid Networks: Seeking Status And Acquiring Authority Beyond State Capacity
… because of—a fairly limited military capacity, achieved a status in the eastern Mediterranean comparable to the great powers such as the Ptolemies, Seleucids, or Antigonids. I demonstrate that the Attalids pursued this status as an alternative source of influence to compensate for the …
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Navigating Progress: The Role of State Capacity in Shaping China’s Internal Migration Dynamic
… factors affect migration flow. I propose that state capacity and citizen registration policy are also essential components and make substantial differences in population migration. State capacity in this research is defined as the government’s capacity to extract resources via taxation to …
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Sovereignty under siege: drug trafficking and state capacity in the Caribbean and Central America
… hamper development, all of which can weaken a state. Weak or failing states become domestic and regional burdens that spill over into neighboring countries and cause secondary and tertiary problems. This thesis examines causes for different state capacities in the Caribbean and Central America …
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Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Financing, Patronage and State Capacity in African Democracies
… success, but there is growing divergence in the capacity of their state institutions to act as effective agents of development. Why? This dissertation argues that modes of party financing are integral to understanding patterns of patronage-based recruitment to public office, and that these …
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Raising the Black Flag : state capacity, geography, international law, and the resurgence of maritime crime
… economic conditions, low levels of bureaucratic state capacity, and low levels of coercive state capacity encourage outbreaks of maritime crime in domestic and international waters. Furthermore, this project finds that acts of maritime crime in domestic and international waters are impacted by …
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Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal
… civil conflicts predominantly occur in weak states, which are states that lack state capacity, it is unclear why not all weak states experience mass armed civil conflict. Second, political stability and highly unequal distribution of resources are opposing forces that are unlikely to coexist …
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As a Matter De Facto: State Capacity Dynamics and Their Role in Shaping Sovereignty for Unrecognized States
<p>What explains de facto states that do not pursue statehood? Why do we see examples of unrecognized states pushing for reintegration after a period of time? Why do some de facto states seem content with the status quo? Previous examination of de facto state strategies highlighted the role that …
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As A Matter De Facto: State Capacity Dynamics And Their Role In Shaping Sovereignty For Unrecognized States
<p> What explains de facto states that do not pursue statehood? Why do we see examples of unrecognized states pushing for reintegration after a period of time? Why do some de facto states seem content with the status quo? Previous examination of de facto state strategies highlighted the role that …
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The impact of political institutions and state capacity on antiretroviral drug coverage : a cross country analysis of determinants
… asks whether countries with higher levels of state capacity tend to have higher levels of HAART coverage. We find weak statistical evidence that both democracies and authoritarian countries can achieve high levels of HAART coverage; cultural fractionalization has less of an effect on coverage …
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Food and Shelter: Village Lives in India and China Compared
… this thesis argues for the importance of state capacity, and interest alignment, in driving forward development and preventing avoidable death or suffering. This provides a new angle on the dominant, Amartya Sen-inspired development models that emphasize free choice and democracy as the …
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
… of three chapters on different challenges state-builders face when creating an effective state apparatus. When principals (such as authoritarian leaders or elected representatives) set up security organs, they must make officials in the security services overcome collective action problems …
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Essays on the Underlying Capacity of the State and its Effects on Economic Development
… dissertation focuses on three main topics: state capacity, conflict and development. During my progress in my program, I have become more interested in these issues as I have seen how closely linked they are and how they help to explore questions related to prosperity, or the lack of …
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Rethinking Civil War
… challenges traditional approaches to intrastate conflict by arguing the need to distinguish both theoretically and empirically between the onset and escalation of civil conflict. I start with a formal model with incomplete information and a two-stage informational updating process. The …
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Aiding dependency : a cross-national analysis of foreign aid and tax compliance
… foreign aid helps or hinders the development of state capacity through its influence on tax compliance. The dissertation argues that tax compliance is the product of a bargaining process between the state and citizenry, which aid can disrupt by lowering the incentive for states to collect taxes …
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Connections and Privileged Access: Essays on The Political Economy of Corruption
… contracts. Second, the link between bureaucratic capacity and corruption. Chapter 2 proposes a novel explanation for citizen engagement in collusive forms of petty corruption. It is rooted in the social context in which citizen-bureaucrat interactions take place. I argue that social proximity and …
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Public Private Partnership contracts in Mozambique and South Africa: managing risks and ensuring sustainability
… of PPPs are accentuated when compared with state borrowing. In addition, when it comes to risk management, all those risks that are supposedly transferred to a private operator are never truly transferred and, in the end, the government is always the residual risk holder should the PPP …
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Essays on the political economy of service provision
… that explain spatial and temporal variations in state capacity and government services, non-state services, and electoral returns to service provision. The first paper develops a theory based on bureaucratic efficiency and argues that bureaucratic efficiency increases with social proximity among …
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Gender Inequality and Terrorism: An Analysis of the Effects of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality on Terrorism
… socioeconomic gender inequality reflects poor state capacity, resulting in grievances that contribute to domestic non-suicide and suicide terrorism. I study gender inequality in the areas of education, labor participation, and life expectancy. Results indicate that education and life expectancy …
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