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Duterte's pandemic populism: Strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the Philippines

Teehankee, Julio C. - 2022

pandemic. While Duterte looks to have triumphed in his attack on human rights and press freedom, his government's record in … popular, with a September 2021 national survey reporting 81 per cent approval of his government's response to the pandemic and …

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How do governments become great? Ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda

Andrews, Matt - 2013

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....

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Trust as state capacity: The political economy of compliance

Besley, Timothy; Dray, Sacha - 2022

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …

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Delivering good aid in hard places: The Yemen Social Fund for Development approach

Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013

The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its inception, SFD has been widely viewed as successful in...

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How clientelism undermines state capacity: Evidence from Mexican municipalities

De La O, Ana L. - 2021

Does clientelism perpetuate the weak state capacity that characterizes many young democracies? Prior work explains that clientelist parties skew public spending to private goods and under-supply public goods. Building on these insights, this article argues that clientelism creates a bureaucratic...

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Redistribution around the world: Causes and consequences

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2016

This paper re-examines the determinants and consequences of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature. In particular, we use the latest version of the UNU-WIDER' Income Inequality Database to have the best available estimates of both pre- and...

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Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries

van den Boogaard, Vanessa; Prichard, Wilson; Milicic, Nikola - 2016

How does conflict affect tax revenue mobilization? This paper uses a newly updated dataset to explore longitudinal trends of tax revenue mobilization prior to, during, and after conflict periods in a selection of conflict-affected states since 1980. This medium-N trend analysis is complemented...

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"Embedded" assistance: Finn Church aid's secondment in Somalia

Lepistö, Rauli S.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Ojala, Jussi - 2015

paper explores one type of assistance - the 'embedding' of highly-skilled staff members within local government agencies … Somalia, its staff member worked as part of the Transitional Federal Government's Ministry of Constitutional Affairs and …

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Ghana's experiments with business-government co-ordination

Aryeetey, Ernest; Owoo, Nkechi - 2015

The article explores the various co-ordination mechanisms between the state and the business community in Ghana, and the implications for economic growth in the country. We focus on three periods in the economic history of state-business relations: the immediate post-independence period and the...

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A new institutionalist analysis on emerging donorship: Explaining the rise of the knowledge dimension in the South Korean aid regime

Yi, Jisun - 2015

the inside dynamics of an emerging donor government - pinpointing why aid bureaucracy stands at the centre of the rise of …

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