... 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...

... bureaucracy state building imperial civil service exams A state’s capacity to govern effectively is fundamental to fostering economic development and ensuring societal welfare (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2020 ; Johnson and Koyama, 2017 ; North et al., 2009). However, the paths that states have taken...

...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...