State-Building

Cornell University Press

2004

xiii, 137 p.

Politics/Current events

9780801442926

1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness ; The Contested Role of the State ; Scope versus Strength ; Scope, Strength, and Economic Development ; The New Conventional Wisdom ; The Supply of Institutions ; The Demand for Institutions ; Making Things Worse ; 2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration ; Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations ; The Ambiguity of Goals ; Principals, Agents, and Incentives ; Decentralization and Discretion ; Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel ; Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications ; 3. Weak States and International Legitimacy ; The New Empire ; The Erosion of Sovereignty ; Nation-Building ; Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level ; Beyond the Nation-State ; 4. Smaller but Stronger

Английский