... on design and investment. In this paper, we develop an economic understanding of the emergence of drainage and levee institutions along the Lower Mississippi, using historical data and an array of contemporaneous and contemporary accounts to trace how state capacity and transaction costs shaped...

... states emerged weak as a by-product of independence — its original sin — there is no consensus on why low state capacity has persisted in spite of political and economic shocks in the last two centuries that could have been expected to influence state capacity. A research agenda on the long-term...

.... Analyses evidence an interaction between political mobilization and state capacity. Where the local state was strong, the state was more likely to respond to popular violence with state violence, and violence also escalated to the point of genocide more often. When incorporated into the government...

... that persecution is more intense the larger the size of the ruler's coalition. We discuss the predictions of the model using several episodes of religious violence drawn from history. Religious violence toleration selectorate theory state capacity conflict Religiously motivated violence remains...

... promoted by the provincial estates themselves (Swann, 2003). © 2023 A. Degrave 2023 A. Degrave Licensed re-use rights only State capacity representation elite capture decentralization European history Over the course of state formation, rulers face a choice between centralizing...

... the finances, and hence the behavior, of the new forces. * Corresponding Author. © 2023 G. Cox, A. Fresh, and S. Saiegh 2023 G. Cox, A. Fresh, and S. Saiegh Licensed re-use rights only Franchise extension democratization state capacity Great Reform Act In this paper, we offer...

... the bureaucracy and build fiscal (and military) state capacity following the Napoleonic paradigm — and explore their legacy on political participation in the modern Greece. We first show that the presence of an Ottoman administrative headquarter (sanjak) — the basis of the Tanzimât reforms...

... 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...