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1. Development Clusters
Almost all economic analysis presumes the existence of an effective state. Specifically, economists invoke the existence of an authority which can tax, enforce contracts and organize public spending on a wide range of activities.
Joseph Schumpeter. Volkswirtschaftliches Institut
2. Fiscal Capacity
Following on from the general overview in Chapter 1, we now begin our presentation of an intellectual framework for understanding state capacity and the forces that shape its creation and maintenance.
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3. Legal Capacity
This chapter adds an important new dimension to the picture - government efforts to improve the operation of private markets, an intervention that we call legal capacity.
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4. Political Violence
Our purpose in this chapter is to take a first step towards a better understanding of the observed clustering of development with political violence. We begin by isolating the likely determinants of internal political violence, drawing on - and extending - the existing literature.
Leo Tolstoy. Credit: F. W. Taylor, Public domain
5. State Spaces
This chapter uses our framework to focus on the common determinants of state pathologies, particularly those due to non-cohesive political institutions and weak common interests.
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6. Development Assistance
A whole development industry - international organizations, donor governments and NGOs - tries to influence the paths of developing countries and are intent on offering a helping hand. In this chapter, we look at such efforts through the lens of our approach as developed from the previous chapters.
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7. Political Reform
In this chapter, we closely examine the role of political institutions and political reform in our framework. This exercise will help us understand why some countries end up with cohesive institutions while others fail to do so.
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8. Lessons Learned
We sum up and take stock of our findings from the previous seven chapters .
Notes on the literature
Further reading for each chapter.
