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Kunal Sen discusses COVID-19 and subnational state capacity in IndiaKunal Sen delivers a seminar on key findings from the UNU-WIDER research project COVID-19 and subnational state capacity in India at the School of Development Studies , Ambedkar University in Delhi, India. The project's detailed studies of the...
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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in PeruHow do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict?...
Civil conflict State capacity Post-conflictWorking Paper
Trust as state capacity: The political economy of complianceThis paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific channel whereby citizens who are convinced that a policy is worthwhile are more motivated to comply with it...
State capacity Trust ComplianceJournal Article
COVID-19 and the state: Exploring a puzzling relationship in the early stages of the pandemicTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was wealthier countries with stronger institutions that suffered the highest numbers of cases and fatalities...
COVID-19 the state PandemicBlog
State assigned property rights and revenue collection in sub-Saharan AfricaAcross sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries there are striking differences in citizen willingness to pay taxes...
Fiscal capacity Building State Capabilities State capacityBlog
Fiscal states in developing economies: Why do they matter and where do they come from?Modern states are complex organizations which perform a broad range of functions. They have an important role in economic and human development...
Fiscal capacity State capacity Building State CapabilitiesWorking Paper
The pandemic and the state: Interrogating capacity and response to COVID-19 in West BengalCOVID-19 has brought to the fore the issue of state preparedness in mitigating health emergencies. This paper problematizes the received wisdom of greater state capacity in mitigating the severity of the pandemic...
COVID-19 West Bengal State capacityWorking Paper
Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelismDuring 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...
COVID-19 Pandemic State capacityWorking Paper
Governance and COVID-19 in BoliviaOn 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world’s strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020...
Bolivia COVID-19 SubnationalWorking Paper
Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault linesThe state of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai have been referred to as the epidemic epicentre of India since the time of the plague of 1896 and influenza epidemic of 1918...
Pandemic Migrants COVID-19 vaccineJournal Article
Clientelism and governancePart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
vote-buying Clientelism PoliticsWorking Paper
Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in GhanaOn the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) pandemic better than wealthier countries with superior healthcare systems...
COVID-19 State capacity ClientelismWorking Paper
COVID-19 and the state: Nicaragua case studyUnlike Latin American peers, and contrary to World Health Organization recommendations, Nicaragua eschewed lockdowns and other common strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19...
Nicaragua Authoritarianism LeadershipWorking Paper
The Tanzanian state response to COVID-19: Why low capacity, discursive legitimacy, and twilight authority matterTanzania received significant global attention for its COVID-19 response during the first year of the pandemic...
Tanzania Nationalism State authorityWorking Paper
Donors for tax morale: Evidence from 34 African countriesDo aid projects affect citizens’ motivation to pay taxes? We address this question by combining fine-grained data on aid projects from AidData and survey data from the Afrobarometer for 34 African countries...
Foreign aid Tax morale State capacityWorking Paper
No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state developmentThis paper combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity...
State capacity Information Fiscal capacity