State Capacity
State capacity is the ability of a government to accomplish policy goals, either generally or in reference to specific aims. ... More narrowly, state capacity ...
State Capacity - Our World in Data
Do governments worldwide have the ability to implement their policies? How is this changing over time? Explore research and data on state capacity.
State capacity: what is it, how we lost it, and how to get it back
We see growing deficits in state capacity over recent decades as a matter of fundamental importance. At stake is not just the prospect for ...
Publication: What Is State Capacity? - Open Knowledge Repository
This paper provides a framework for thinking about the problem as a series of interdependent principal-agent relationships in complex organizations.
What Is State Capacity? - World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
What Is State Capacity? Stuti Khemani. Development Economics. Development Research Group. February 2019. Public Disclosure Authorized.
Leviathan's Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for ...
In this article, we examine these conceptual issues, identify three core dimensions of state capacity, and develop the expectation that they are mutually ...
Building the Government We Need: A Framework for Democratic ...
State capacity refers to the ability of the government to execute a set of policy priorities effectively (Linz 1978). Capacity is related to but ...
State Capacity - Niskanen Center
The State Capacity Initiative aims to improve our government's ability to effectively implement its policy objectives. We focus on identifying the barriers ...
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson. Published in volume 99, issue 4, pages 1218-44 ...
State Capacity in Historical Political Economy - Scholars at Harvard
We cannot take well-functioning states for granted. This chapter examines state capacity from a long-run historical perspective. We rst discuss ...
State Capacity and Economic Development
“State capacity” concerns the state's ability to accomplish its intended policy actions (as described in Section 1). “Effective statehood,” in turn, concerns ...
State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the ...
State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years ... We study how the organization of the ...
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
We study the effect of state capacity of Colombian municipalities on public goods provision and prosperity. We conceptualize “state capacity” as the presence of ...
State capacity index - Our World in Data
The index captures the extent to which the state controls its territory, sustainably raises sufficient resources, and has skilled and ...
The origins of state capacity: property rights, taxation and politics
If state capacities do indeed impose effective constraints, we will be able to gauge them through current measures of taxation and market development. Figure 1 ...
What 50 Years of Weakened State Capacity Means for Progressive ...
What 50 Years of Weakened State Capacity Means for Progressive Policy Wins · Rebuild our state capacity; · Reform and strengthen our tax code; ...
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action
Reviews. “Building State Capability provides anyone interested in promoting development with practical advice on how to proceed—not by copying imported ...
Reducing tax rates increases tax revenues when enforcement capacity is low. However, low-capacity states can invest in tax enforcement to shift up the revenue- ...
Endogenous State Capacity - Annual Reviews
Canonical studies of the origins of state capacity have focused on macro-historical or structural explanations. I review recent research in ...
State capacity and development clusters | CEPR
This column reviews evidence from 25 years of data to argue that countries form persistent 'development clusters' according to their levels of internal peace ...