... determinants of state capacity should be informed by emerging, historically rooted, scholarship on state formation and state building. We review recent publications on these topics with two objectives. First, we provide an analytical synthesis of recent contributions. Second, this synthesis suggests future...

... for scholars aiming to understand China’s political development and build theories about state building and avoid incorrect causal interpretations about its authoritarian durability. One reason for drawing potentially incorrect causal arrows between meritocracy and political development in China...

...Cameron G. Thies This paper evaluates the current state of the literature on the sources of state-building in Latin America. The literature has grown to include a number of explanations rooted in the historical legacies of domestic political economy processes or external threat, most of which...

... of Emerald Publishing Limited must be obtained for commercial re-use. Intendants France bureaucracy state capacity state building In the study of political development, fiscal capacity plays a crucial role in understanding the centralization of state authority. For it proxies the state’s...