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...Asli Cansunar; Nela Mrchkovska Can primary schools aid new states in establishing legitimacy among rural populations? Extensive literature on state-building has demonstrated that primary schools in rural communities play a pivotal role in enhancing state capacity and legitimacy. In addition...

...-level state power. A case study of compliance with vaccination mandates in the pre-colonial kingdom of Buganda provides additional evidence in support of our argument. Because state-building is a piecemeal process that often takes centuries to unfold, we argue that spatial variation in contemporary...