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Sub-national institutional performance across Ghana’s districts and regions – variation and causes
  • Ghana
  • Institutional performance
  • State capacity
Seminar
Kunal Sen discusses COVID-19 and subnational state capacity in India

Kunal 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...

23 February 2023
School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University, Room 301, Admin Block, Kashmere Gate Campus, Delhi, India
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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru

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...

  • Civil conflict
  • State capacity
  • Post-conflict
Working Paper
States of disorder

Why is the recent track record of state-building so poor? Over the past decade, international interventions in Afghanistan, Somalia, Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have not resulted in...

  • Statebuilding
  • Peacebuilding
  • Governance
Working Paper
Power, institutions, and state-building after war

I examine whether and how the means through which a civil war ends affects the success of a country’s state-building strategy after conflict. I show that two distinct modes of conflict termination—military victories and negotiated settlements—lead to...

  • Civil conflict
  • Political settlements
  • Statebuilding
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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies

To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics—the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime—and proposes a...

  • Political violence
  • War
  • Conflict
Working Paper
Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trends

This paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in the Global South by asking whether there are fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa. To answer this question, we review the diverse understandings of the fiscal...

  • Fiscal states
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Taxation
Working Paper
No taxation without informational foundation

This 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. We show that information capacity contributes to the...

  • State capacity
  • Information
  • Fiscal capacity
Journal Article
Conceptualizing the fiscal state

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  • Fiscal states
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Taxation
Book Chapter
Foreign aid and peacebuilding

Foreign aid is a core component of peacebuilding and among the largest external financial flows to fragile states and conflict-affected areas. Nevertheless, troubling critiques have been raised about its overall impact and effectiveness. Some of the...

  • Foreign aid
  • Peacebuilding
  • Aid effectiveness
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Civic legacies of wartime governance

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to ‘wartime governance’ on social and political behaviour. We operationalize...

  • Conflict
  • Statebuilding
  • Local development
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Institutional legacies of violent conflict

Theme: Transforming states

  • Violent conflict
  • Political violence
  • Wartime governance
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