Can police patrols prevent pollution? the limits of authoritarian environmental governance in China by van der KAMP, DS

“…These findings suggest that China's obstacles to pollution enforcement may be greater than anticipated, and theories of authoritarian efficiency overlook gaps in authoritarian state capacity.…”

Institutions, Factor Prices, and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States? by Acemoglu, Daron

“…More generally, although greater state capacity and stronger states may bring a variety of economic benefits, they will also increase the value of controlling the state and thus induce increased political conflict and infighting. …”
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Trapped In The Semi-Periphery by Anthony William Donald Anastasi

“…An export-oriented industrialization strategy, with tight limits on foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs) operating within the economy, building up state capacity in order to form a close collaborative, not corrupting relationship between private businesses and the state, and calls for heavy investments in human capital and industrial upgrading. …”
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The Right to Water, Law and Municipal Practice: Case Studies from India by Arkaja Singh

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Policy process in Indonesia during COVID-19: a cross-sectoral policy perspective by Evi Satispi, Ma'mun Murod

“…These policy decisions are impacted by the state's capacity to handle policy concurrently so that the government has long-term policy alternatives. …”
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Resuming growth in Latin America: short and long term policies by Julio Lopez G., Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

“…They thus maintain that to overcome stagnation it will be necessary to reconstruct the state's capacity to implement pro-growth policies. Following Keynes and Kalecki's ideas, but also classical development economists, the authors argue, first, that short-term macroeconomic policies, to reduce unemployment and to increase the degree of capacity utilization, should be used to promote the generation of profits to firms and to wake up entrepreneurs' animal spirits. …”
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The Brisk Financing of Education: University Education and State Matching Funds Programs in International Comparison by Gulzhan ISATAYEVA, Sandugash KALDYKOZOVA, Zhuparkul AUELBEKOVA, Umirali TURYSKULOV, Ziliha MIYATBEKOVA, Kyzdarkul KASENOVA

“…The analysis of successful fundraising and matching funds programs shows the following conclusions for Germany: universities need state capacity to fundraise departments build. Likewise, government matching funds must not only fund donations for scholarships but also for research and teaching. …”
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The political economy of unfinished development projects: corruption, clientelism, or collective choice? by Williams, M

“…These findings have theoretical and methodological implications for distributive politics, the design of inter- governmental transfers and aid, and the development of state capacity.…”

Estado e economia na Coreia do Sul - do Estado desenvolvimentista à crise asiática e à recuperação posterior by Alexandre Queiroz Guimarães

“…The article shows that the crisis was a result of the combination between internal economic fragilities and a rapid process of financial deregulation, which undermined the state's capacity of control. The crisis, nevertheless, does not disqualify the role of the national institutions in the very successful process of industrialization. …”
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Secular States, Muslim Law and Islamic Religious Culture: Gender Implications of Legal Struggles in Hybrid Legal Systems in Contemporary West Africa by Barbara M. Cooper

“…Throughout West Africa legal reform must contend with the dual problems of weak state capacity to impose a unified legal system and of the vigilantism of pressure groups that may have limited mastery of the Islamic juridical tradition in an atmosphere that is nevertheless heavy with the rhetoric of a return to Islamic purity.…”
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Postcolonial Sub-Saharan 1 State and Contemporary General Business Environment. Selected Issues by Tomasz W. Kolasinski

“…If certain signs of its deterioration are observed, they are mostly due to the erosion of state capacity, whose origins can be traced back to the Berlin Conference. …”
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Evaluating the United Nation’s Agenda for Atrocity Prevention: Prospects for the International Regulation of Internal Security by Cecilia Jacob

“…In recent years the UN Secretary-General has promoted mass atrocity prevention as the priority agenda for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) at the UN, redirecting debates on R2P away from military interventionism towards improved state capacity to prevent atrocity crimes and protect populations. …”
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The Social-Democratic Small-State Strategy and Immigration: Sweden in the 21st Century by Mara Fridell

“…Analyzing authoritative conservative-liberal discursive tactics, particularly how they construct a state of moral emergency out of population change (immigration) within the high-capacity state and society, exposes their political target: How the state's capacity to include semi-sovereign labor, to relieve the economic and geopolitical limits upon citizenship, is girded by the state's internalization of social reproduction, particularly its capillary connections through female employment in a welfare state oriented to substantive rationality. …”
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Six Decades of Energy Poverty: Reducing Disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean? by Fernando Antonio Ignacio González, María María Ibáñez-Martín

“…Latin America and the Caribbean are one of the most unequal regions in the world, with high levels of poverty and reduced state capacity to solve structural problems. In this paper, we examined the existence of a β-convergence process between countries (i.e., reduction of disparities) in terms of energy poverty indicators. …”
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Global Migration Law and Regional Free Movement: Compliance and Adjudication – The Case of South America by Diego Acosta

“…The expansion of human rights law coupled with the explosion of regional processes of integration are the two most important phenomena that have limited the state's capacity to restrict the entry of foreigners and their rights. …”
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The Rise of Technocratic Leadership in the 1990s in the People’s Republic of China by Rongrong Lin

“…It also reveals how the Chinese Communist Party legitimizes its ruling power and maintains state capacity and political order through elite recruitment.…”
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The Organisation of the Killings and the Interaction between State and Society in Central Java, 1965 by Mathias Hammer

“…Chaotic conditions in the detention facilities put further limits on the state's capacity to select people for execution. To counter these effects, auditing and investigation teams were put into place to carry out these selections (4). …”
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A Synergy of Failures: Environmental Protection and Chinese Capital in Southeast Europe by Konstantinos Tsimonis, Igor Rogelja, Ioana Ciută, Anastasia Frantzeskaki, Elena Nikolovska, Besjan Pesha

“…We examine five key Chinese projects in Southeast Europe, a sub-region that includes countries with different forms of association with European institutions and with varying levels of development and state capacity. We find that the negative environmental impact of these projects cannot be attributed to the commonly held perception of the Chinese as inherently “bad” investors and of host states as “weak” and dependent. …”
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National policy and transnational governance of climate change: substitutes or complements? by Andonova, L, Hale, T, Roger, C

“…Many scholars and policymakers see transnational governance as a substitute for lackluster national and international policies, particularly in the context of intergovernmental gridlock or limited state capacity. The bulk of the literature explains sub- and non-state actors’ participation in transnational initiatives as a product of, on the one hand, micro-level incentives and, on the other, diffusion processes that create and spread normative and market-based pressures. …”

The Indian Diaspora as a Social Movement: The Case of the Gulf Countries by Hayati Ünlü

“…Arab countries in the Persian Gulf began to develop as a result of huge oil reserves and needed an intense workforce in the 1970s to have a modern state capacity. The required capacity of migrant workers was supplied from India, the Persian Gulf, and the South Asia axis and became one of the largest migration corridors in the world. …”
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