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State capacity and identity : assimilation vs resistance of tribal rimlands

Skaperdas, Stergios; Testa, Patrick A. - 2026

While the populations of wealthy modern states primarily identify with their nation, middle- and low-income countries often contain large populations that adhere to distinct subnational identities. We model a central government elite that has a conflictual relationship with its “tribal...

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Delegating governmental authority to private actors : lordships, state capacity and development

Oto-Peralías, Daniel - 2026

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Political violence and the rise of fascism

Colombo, Luca; Magnani, Michele; Onorato, Massimiliano … - 2026

In the early 1920s, Italian fascism grew from a marginal group into an organized party capable of challenging incumbent political forces and precipitating democratic backsliding. A key driver of this expansion was the strategic use of violence by squads that moved across municipalities to strike...

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Legitimacy in the age of artificial intelligence

Engel, Christoph - 2026

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Administrative failure, state capacity, and democratic exclusion : evidence from Berlin's 2021 election breakdown

Kröper, Marius - 2025

This paper studies the long-run effects of non-strategic administrative failures on voter participation. I exploit a natural experiment from Berlin’s 2021 elections, in which hundreds of precincts experienced ballot shortages, multi-hour queues, and unlawful polling closures. Using...

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Kin-based institutions and state capacity

Ezcurra, Roberto - 2025

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Kin-based institutions and state capacity

Ezcurra, Roberto - 2025

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Borderland infrastructures : trade, development, and control in Western China

Rippa, Alessandro - 2025

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the...

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Borderland infrastructures : trade, development, and control in Western China

Rippa, Alessandro - 2020

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Bourbon reforms and state capacity in the spanish empire

Chiovelli, Giorgio; Fergusson, Leopoldo; Martínez, Luis R. - 2024

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Bourbon reforms and state capacity in the Spanish empire

Chiovelli, Giorgio; Fergusson, Leopoldo; Martínez, Luis R. - 2024

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Violence, political selection, and state formation : evidence from post-unification italy

Buonanno, Paolo; Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura; … - 2026

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How Repression Undermines Infrastructural Power

Saijo, Harunobu - 2023

How does repression shape state capacity? While the literature on the effectiveness of repression in quelling opposition and insurgency has been mixed, the reverse impact of actually employing repression on the coercive organs has been understudied. This paper shows that repressions by police...

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Leviathan's shadow : the imperial legacy of state capacity and economic development in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Neubert, Magnus - 2023

What is the effect of state capacity on economic development? I argue that strong and centralised states are capable of mobilising the resources required to establish an efficient administration and provide public goods, which are preconditions for modern economic growth. To test this...

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Leviathan's Shadow : The Imperial Legacy of State Capacity and Economic Development in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Neubert, Magnus - 2023

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Revisiting the Power of the State : Chinese Perspectives on State Power and Economic Management

Tan, Albert - 2023

Zheng Yongnian's article "Discovering the Power of State: Chinese Thinking on State Power and Economic Management" offers an analysis of the role of the Chinese state in economic development. The article argues that the Chinese state has been a key factor in China's economic success, using a...

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Government control over qui tam suits and separation of powers

Li, Tiffany - 2025

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State capacity and executive constraints in early modern Europe

Henriques, António; Karaman, Kivanc; Palma, Nuno - 2025

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Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelism

Chathukulam, Jos; Joseph, Manasi - 2022

During the first wave of COVID-19 infections, Kerala, a state in southern India, successfully managed to contain the pandemic. As a result, the Kerala model of managing the COVID-19 pandemic was celebrated as a success across the globe. However, at the time of writing, it looks like the...

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Explaining divergent national responses to Covid-19 : an enhanced state capacity framework

Weiss, Linda; Thurbon, Elizabeth - 2022

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Techno-regulation in China : how are Bavarian firms faring under the social credit system?

Serrano Oswald, Omar Ramon; Selmanovic, Sandra; Lee, … - 2022

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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru

Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022

How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...

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Historical roots, cultural selection and the "new world order"

Miller, Marcus - 2023

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Historical roots, cultural selection and the "New World Order"

Miller, Marcus - 2022

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Historical roots, cultural selection and the "New World Order"

Miller, Marcus - 2022

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State Capacity

Dincecco, Mark; Wang, Yuhua - 2022

This chapter evaluates state capacity from a long-run historical perspective. We discuss how to define and measure state capacity. We explain how the establishment of a high-capacity state can enhance domestic peace, improve material prosperity, and promote more pluralistic norms. We describe...

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State capacity in historical political economy

Dincecco, Mark; Wang, Yuhua - 2024

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How clientelism undermines state capacity : evidence from Mexican municipalities

De La O, Ana L. - 2024

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How clientelism undermines state capacity : evidence from Mexican municipalities

De La O, Ana L. - 2021

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Religious violence and coalition politics in history

Desierto, Desiree; Koyama, Mark - 2024

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"Make us a king" : anarchy, predation, and the state

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2002

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"Make us a king" : anarchy, predation, and the state

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1997

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"Make Us a King" : Anarchy, Predation, and the State

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021

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"Make Us a King" : Anarchy, Predation, and the State

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1997

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Erosion of state power, corruption control, and political stability

Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - 2020

How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions of state capacity? Motivated by historians' analysis of powerful empires, we build a model that emphasizes the corrosive effect of corruption on state power. Under general...

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Erosion of State Power, Corruption Control, and Political Stability

Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - 2021

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What's Liberal About Adam Smith's Liberal Plan?

Matson, Erik W. - 2021

In addition to its connection with ideas of freedom, the word “liberal” is an apt descriptor of Smith’s plan in politics. Smith’s plan evinces attributes that are liberal in a non-political sense. Salient among these attributes is generosity and charity. The liberal plan, on Smith’s...

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The Mongol Conquest, State Capacity, and Historical Stagnation of Imperial China

Ho, Kaman - 2021

The Mongol conquest was one of the bloodiest wars in human history. The Mongol conquest of China (1205-1279 AD) continued to have persistent negative effects on long-term development, even centuries after the war. Using newly assembled war, population, and 16th century county-level agricultural...

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Law, Social Movements, and the Political Economy of Domestic Violence

Weissman, Deborah M. - 2021

This article uses the occasion of the 2012 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to review the circumstances by which legal theory and social movement discourse have acted to circumscribe the scope of VAWA and the dominant approach to domestic violence. It seeks to explore the...

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The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2004

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The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2003

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The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2003

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The Assignment of Powers in an Open-Ended European Union

Salmon, Pierre - 2021

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The Real Swing Voter'S Curse

Robinson, James Alan; Torvik, Ragnar - 2021

A key idea in political economy is that policy is often tailored to voters who are not ideologically attached - swing voters. We show, however, that in political environments where political parties can use repression and violence to exclude voters from elections, they may optimally target the...

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The Real Swing Voter's Curse

Robinson, James Alan; Torvik, Ragnar - 2009

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COVID-19 and the state

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Vaccaro, Andrea - 2021

We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger institutions have had the highest numbers of cases and...

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China's belt and road meets the Three Seas Initiative : Chinese and US sticky power in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and Poland’s strategic interests

Lewicki, Grzegorz - 2020 - Extended edition 2

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Die Grenzen der Rohstoffausbeutung : Umweltkonflikte und ökoterritoriale Wende in Lateinamerika

Svampa, Maristella - 2020

Die Rohstoffausbeutung und das Vordringen des Neo-Extraktivismus in Lateinamerika hat enorme Ausmaße angenommen und tiefgreifende Folgen für Mensch und Natur. Maristella Svampa nimmt sich diesem Prozess an und analysiert ihn umfassend aus sozio-ökologischer und politischer Perspektive. Dazu...

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Die Grenzen der Rohstoffausbeutung : Umweltkonflikte und ökoterritoriale Wende in Lateinamerika

Svampa, Maristella - 2020

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Offshore finance and state power

Binder, Andrea - 2023

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Democracy, state capacity and public finance

Easaw, Joshy Z.; Leppälä, Samuli - 2023

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Social credit and corporate leverage : evidence from a natural experiment in China

Sun, Nan; Tao, Yunqing; Leng, Xuan; Li, Jiaxuan - 2023

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The Institutional Power of the State

Osipov, Vladimir Sergeevič - 2019

The paper is describing the introduction to the institutional theory of the State. The famous works of Maurice Hauriou, Douglass North, John Commons, Gianfranco Poggi and others were used as the basis of institution theory of the State. The sight to the State as institutionalized power give us a...

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State capacity and public choice : a critical survey

Piano, Ennio - 2019

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State Capacity and Public Choice : A Critical Survey

Piano, Ennio Emanuele - 2019

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State capacity and economic development : causal mechanism or correlative filter?

Geloso, Vincent; Salter, Alexander William - 2020

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State Capacity and Economic Development : Causal Mechanism or Correlative Filter?

Geloso, Vincent - 2019

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Delegation of Governmental Authority in Historical Perspective : Lordships, State Capacity and Development

Oto‐Peralías, Daniel - 2019

This paper investigates the long-term consequences of delegation of governmental authority through the study of a pivotal local political institution in historical Europe: the lordship. I collect data on seigneurial jurisdictions for ancien-regime Spain and document a negative relationship...

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Going Postal : State Capacity and Violent Dispute Resolution

Jensen, Jeffrey; Ramey, Adam - 2019

Scholars have long tried to understand the conditions under which actors choose to use violent versus non-violent means to settle disputes, and many argue that violence is more likely in weakly-institutionalized settings. Yet, there is little evidence showing that increases in state capacity...

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Adam Smith's Liberalism

Rodríguez Braun, Carlos - 2019

In recent years studies have appeared that highlighted Adam Smith's interventionist recommendations. These opinions are not new. The exceptions to liberalism in Smith's thought were pointed out by Jacob Viner in 1927. Even before Viner, there were economists who condemned the exaggeratedly...

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Elite collective agency and the state

Ertürk, Korkut A. - 2020

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Elite collective agency and the state

Ertürk, Korkut A. - 2019

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What is state capacity?

Khemani, Stuti - 2019

Reform leaders who want to pursue technically sound policies are confronted with the problem of getting myriad government agencies, staffed by thousands of bureaucrats and state personnel, to deliver. This paper provides a framework for thinking about the problem as a series of interdependent...

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