Regulation and state capacity. [PDF]
Ration Soc, 2022 While one might expect states with low capacity to regulate less than states with high capacity, this is not supported by evidence, leaving open the possibility of rent-seeking. I use the example of the regulation of witchcraft in parts of Africa to informally model the conditions under which states with low capacity still come to promulgate a range of
Chowdhury A.
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Policy design and state capacity in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: if you are not prepared for the (un)expected, you can be only what you already are [PDF]
Policy & Society, 2020 Italy was the first large epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western world. Since the country has not had any serious experience with this kind of disease in recent decades, its response has been indicative of a first reaction to an (un)known and (
Giliberto Capano
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Roads to Rule, Roads to Rebel: Relational State Capacity and Conflict in Africa. [PDF]
J Conflict Resolut, 2021 Müller-Crepon C +2 more
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Public health and cancer in Latin America: the region does not lack evidence; it lacks effective state capacity, enforceable laws, sustained prevention, and early diagnosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthAleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez +2 more
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On the Capacity of Channels With Deletions and States [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021 We consider the class of channels formed from the concatenation of a deletion channel and a finite-state channel. For this class of channels, we show that the operational capacity is equal to the stationary capacity, which can be approached by a sequence of Markov processes with increasing Markovian orders.
Yonglong Li, Vincent Y. F. Tan
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Politics and Governance, 2022 The implementation of ambitious climate policies consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement is fundamentally influenced by political dynamics. Yet, thus far, climate mitigation pathways developed by integrated assessment models (IAMs) have devoted ...
Silvia Pianta, Elina Brutschin
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Oligarchy, democracy, and state capacity [PDF]
Economic Theory, 2011 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Cesar Martinelli, Helios Herrera
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IS HETEROGENEITY THE RULE, NOT THE EXCEPTION? A TENTATIVE TYPOLOGY OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS
Revista Tempo do Mundo, 2022 The inquiry departs from the idea that heterogeneity is the rule, not the exception, regarding the National Innovation Systems (NIS) worldwide. The paper’s main goal is to advance understanding with empirical-based knowledge on how this uneven pattern ...
Pedro Cavalcante
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State Capacity and Tolerance towards Tax Evasion: First Evidence from Romania
Administrative Sciences, 2020 We investigate the level of tolerance towards tax non-compliance and the informal economy in Romania, using a sample of 250 respondents. This variable is determined by a complex set of latent variables that include, but is not limited to, state capacity,
Călin Vâlsan +2 more
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The Joint Effect of International and Domestic-Level State Capacity on Civil War Risk
Social Sciences, 2020 This article examines the role of international and domestic-level factors for strengthening states’ capacity. State failure enhances insecurity, since there is not sufficient agency or institutions to provide adequate security guarantees and to put into
Zorzeta Bakaki
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