Brazil’s Strategic Diplomacy Failures and Foreign Policy Underachievement under Bolsonaro by Mahrukh Doctor

“…These are analysed through the lens of ‘strategic diplomacy’, a concept that considers state capacity for agile long-term oriented diplomatic action. …”
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Russia's political economy re-conceptualized: A changing hybrid of liberalism, statism and patrimonialism by Uwe Becker, Alexandra Vasileva

“…We argue that Russian patrimonialism hindered the rise of the economically facilitating state capacity and undermined both liberalization in the 1990s and re-etatization in the 2000s. …”
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The postsocialist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe by BÉLA GRESKOVITS

“…Central and Eastern Europe’s post-socialist path is characterized by an increasingly discredited ideology of a return to Europe and a non- European combination of substitute institutions of development: radical opening towards the world economy, damaged institutions of labor representation, eroded state capacity, and often strong private and foreign dominance in the financial and other strategic sectors. …”
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Medellín’s Biblioteca España: Progress in Unlikely Places by Jennifer S Holmes, Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres

“…In this paper, we ask whether improvements in state capacity and infrastructure at the local level can have a broad impact in poor and violent communities. …”
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The relevance of comparative politics by Rothstein, B

“…One result is that democratization without increased state capacity and control of corruption is not likely to deliver increased human well-being.…”

Big push or big grab? Railways, government activism, and export growth in Latin America, 1865–1913 by Bignon, V, Ferreira Da Costa Esteves, R, Herranz-Loncán, A

“…The main implication of our analysis is that the build-up of state capacity was a necessary condition for railway expansion and also, to a large extent, for export expansion in Latin America during the first globalization.…”

How does globalization affect COVID-19 responses? by Steve J. Bickley, Ho Fai Chan, Ahmed Skali, David Stadelmann, Benno Torgler

“…Additionally, we find that globalized countries with high state capacity are more likely to have higher numbers of confirmed cases by the time a first restriction policy measure was taken. …”
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Nigerian State and the Crisis of Governance: A Critical Exposition by Dhikru Adewale Yagboyaju, Adeoye O. Akinola

“…Over the decades, there has been a recurrent and sustained argument that the Nigerian state, like its counterparts in Africa and other countries of the developing world, underperforms due to lack of state capacity to deal with the contemporary complexities of governance. …”
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Conceptualización de las causas y consecuencias de los Estados fallidos: una reseña crítica de la literatura. by Jonathan Di John.

“…The focus on ranking states also distracts attention away from analyses concerning the dynamics of state capacity. Moreover, many of the definitions either compare reality to a Weberian ideal, or assume that violence is ‘development in reverse’, both of which are ahistorical and unhelpful as a guide to policy. …”
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The Development of Slovenia in the European Union: Social Aspects by Iryna Butyrska

“…The situation is getting better; indicators of trust in government are increasing, which also points to state capacity and political regime stability in Slovenia. …”
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Pre-war grievances and violence against civilians in civil wars. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia. by Francisco Herreros, Jordi Domenech

“…Pre-war grievances can only affect civilian victimization in civil wars if they have been intensely mobilized in the period close to the outbreak of the conflict and if there is a temporary collapse of state capacity. This article presents a “fair test” of the grievance hypothesis. …”
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Multi-ethnicity or Bi-nationalism? The Framework Agreement and the Future of the Macedonian State by Jenny Engström

“…It is argued that the power-sharing provisions laid out in the Agreement push Macedonia closer to the creation of a de facto Macedonian-Albanian bi-national state, rather than promoting a civic-oriented, multiethnic state, and that the envisioned political decentralization undermines state capacity and authority, thus making the prospects for sustainable peace in Macedonia very precarious.…”
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Global patterns of power sector reform, 1982–2013 by Johannes Urpelainen, Joonseok Yang

“…If developing economies continue to expand their economies, build state capacity, and move toward democratic political institutions, then we may see more private electric utilities and competition for profits in the future. …”
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NGO, Civil Society dan Demokrasi: Kritik atas Pandangan Liberal by - Suharko

“…In fact, as studies also showed, NGOs would lessen the state capacity in cases where it depends too much to foreign aid.…”
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The Effects of Administrative Burden on Program Equity and Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Foreclosure Prevention Program by Stephanie Casey Pierce, Stephanie Moulton

“…These findings suggest that shifting the documentation burden to the state without sufficiently expanding state capacity may substitute one form of administrative burden for another.…”

China’s Geostrategy in the Indo-Pacific zone by Balakin V.I.

“…According to this idea, the nautical potential of China must match its integrated state capacity and national security and progressive development interests.…”
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Pre-war grievances and violence against civilians in civil wars. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia. by Francisco Herreros, Jordi Domenech

“…Pre-war grievances can only affect civilian victimization in civil wars if they have been intensely mobilized in the period close to the outbreak of the conflict and if there is a temporary collapse of state capacity. This article presents a “fair test” of the grievance hypothesis. …”
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NGO, Civil Society dan Demokrasi: Kritik atas Pandangan Liberal. by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…In fact, as studies also showed, NGOs would lessen the state capacity in cases where it depends too much to foreign aid. …”

Political outcomes of aid by Cruz, C, Labonne, J, Wright, A

“…Those can affect the strategic decisions of voters and local leaders with a range of potential consequences from institutional changes and strengthening state capacity to corruption, political capture and distortions.…”

Attribution and accountability: voting for roads in Ghana by Harding, R

“…In contexts of limited information and weak state capacity, it can be difficult for citizens to attribute the provision of public goods and services to political action. …”