State-Building

Cornell University Press

2014

Messenger Lectures

9780801455360

1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness -Introduction -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 -Introduction -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 -Introduction -The New Empire -The Erosion of Sovereignty -Nation-Building -Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level -Beyond the Nation-State -4. Smaller but Stronger -Bibliography Index

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