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ICYMI: check out Michele D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya's excellent work cadastral records, state capacity & regime type. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gove.12206
also @anulolbapnauj & Hillel Soifer's use of surveys to estimate subnational state capacity: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764217720964
& another from my brilliant colleague @HarbersImke on mapping state capacity in Ecuador: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gove.12117
here's a fascinating look at how the Ugandan state manages its security capacity by @rtapscott: https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/116/462/39/2605667
Catherine Boone (2012) illustrates why state capacity is a political choice: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/324/32425402007.pdf
@pstanpolitics builds on this insight & characterizes how states manage their security capacity sometimes in alliance with non-state armed actors: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343317698848
@MilliLake's book looks at how non-state actors interact with the state in fascinating ways: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/strong-ngos-and-weak-states/2880FAC0349E13A04946C20FA0007361
Allison Post, Vivian Bronsoler, & Lana Salman characterize how states & non-state actors provide public goods: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717002109
In the US context, @pfrymer explains policy in the 19th century aimed at restricting settlements to avoid war and build state capacity on the frontier first: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592713003745
@mstalanquer is also doing excellent work on this: in a forthcoming paper @LAPSjournal, he shows how landowning elites manipulated land formalization in their favor in 20th-c Colombia, w/ important implications for state capacity: https://sancheztalanquer.com/docs/Legibility%20and%20Taxation_SanchezTalanquer.pdf
in a well-cited and recently-updated working paper, @jkhanson & @SigmanDecides use Bayesian latent variable analysis to assess dimensions of state capacity, & produce a new cross-national indicator: https://qog.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1733/1733772_hansonsigman_lld_20190605.pdf
@AgustinaGiraudy & @anulolbapnauj have an excellent chapter on 'state territorial reach' that develops a typology of state presence vis-a-vis challengers https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/states-in-the-developing-world/unpacking-the-states-uneven-territorial-reach-evidence-from-latin-america/A4DF21684FAF101E2F1182AD0341910F
@DipaliM80 writes about statecraft in Afghanistan featuring warlords-turned-bureaucrats, raising questions about state formation and capacity: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/warlords-strongman-governors-and-the-state-in-afghanistan/BCA6CD9EA581F78D88C295D613381835
in his recent book, @afghanopoly describes how warlords navigate wars, bureaucracies, and personal networks in ways that don't necessarily undermine state authority even if it undercuts a centralized state in Afghanistan: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501746420/warlord-survival/#bookTabs=1
& keep an eye out for a special issue of @LAPSjournal that @HarbersImke & I guest-edited, 'The subnational state in Latin America', fall 2021. featuring: @silvia_otero85 @AgustinaGiraudy @PribbleJenny @mstalanquer @tomdosek Maritza Paredes, Kent Eaton, & Matthew Cleary.
our introduction previews the articles and develops our own typology of states based on how broad or narrow public goods & rights protections are, and how uniform or uneven the provision is across territory: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iU5P5LcFKcAbi66nqdT5qoGFKecta5XP/view @HarbersImke
Hot off the press! @SlaterPolitics & Soifer: https://twitter.com/slaterpolitics/status/1247127091340029952?s=21 https://twitter.com/SlaterPolitics/status/1247127091340029952
i'm belatedly adding work by @che_shani to this thread - on police reform in Latin America and why institutional weakness persists: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/article/social-origins-of-institutional-weakness-and-change/48687E91FED8A6A4369B420EB583766C
and by @che_shani: on 'participatory' security and police reform in LA: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-politics-and-society/article/participation-as-a-safety-valve-police-reform-through-participatory-security-in-latin-america/4AB08E791935A4FB0A430B39EFBD6654
new by @ipenarandac @silvia_otero85 & Simón Uribe: a fine-grained, fascinating history of roads and coca in one Colombian municipality that reveals how porous "rebel" and "state" state-building can be: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X21000073
& here’s a thread on all the pieces in the @LAPSjournal SI that @HarbersImke & I edited on subnational variation in state presence: https://twitter.com/abbey_st/status/1278282504504565765
