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Summary. The balance of power—a notoriously slippery, murky, and protean term, endlessly debated and variously defined—is the core theory of international politics within the realist perspective. A “balance of power” system is one in which the power held and exercised by states within the system is checked and balanced by the power of ...
- April 7, 2017
- I. Introduction
- V. Toward a Theory of State Capacity
- VI. Conclusion
Abstract: In reviewing existing definitions and theories of state capacity, we find most to be too teleological, too inductive, and too closely tailored to explaining particular outcomes. We argue that this limits the concept’s applicability arbitrari-ly and impedes theory development. This paper proposes a new conceptualization of state capacity, ...
State capacity has become a major research topic in the social sciences. A large and growing literature now argues that if we wish to explain long-run political changes and enduring differences in economic and political development among countries, we first need to understand how states become able to control their territories, raise revenue, estab...
We have argued that state capacity should be conceptualized as a form of political power. Specifically, we have defined state capacity as the strength of the causal relationship between policy instruments (p) and the intended outcomes of public policies (y). We now introduce the third building block in our analysis: the re-sources that states deplo...
We have argued in this paper that the main weaknesses and inconsistencies in the existing literature on state capacity can be overcome by conceptualizing state ca-pacity as a form of political power, and by developing a theory about the resour-ces and instruments that are required to project such power. By way of conclusion, we propose three areas ...
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This dissertation provides a definition of “power”, and examines the implication of said definition for the study of politics. The exam of extant debates, from Dahl to Lukes and Morriss, shows that a proper definition of power is still to be had; those so far proposed are either circular and/or so detached from the concept’s meaning in ordinary language that they cease to be about power.
- Guido Parietti
- 2018
Jan 14, 2021 · State Power at the Founding. Before the ratification of the Constitution, the state governments’ power far exceeded that held by the national government. This distribution of authority was the result of a conscious decision and was reflected in the structure and framework of the Articles of Confederation. The national government was limited ...
STANCE is a six-year research program at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. The program, consisting of several separate but connected research projects, aims to answer the question of how state-making and the international system co-evolved in the long 19th century (1789-1914) and beyond.
Dec 6, 2014 · While the meaning of the term ‘exclusion’ has changed since the mid-1970s, Cédric Frétigné (Citation 1999, p. 63) in his Sociologie de l'exclusion regards Lenoir's book as the ‘founding document’ of the modern discourse about exclusion in French society. During the late 1980s and 1990s it became the blueprint for policy change as ...
