MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA

MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA

This paper builds a new measure of state capacity for application to contemporary Latin America which improves on existing indices in several ways. First, rather than using a single proxy, it combines multiple dimensions (extraction, security, and the administration of basic services) of the minimal...

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Autor principal: SOIFER,HILLEL DAVID
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2012
Materias:
State capacity
State Power
Measurement
Unevenness
Administration
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20120003000042013-02-15MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICASOIFER,HILLEL DAVID State capacity State Power Measurement Unevenness Administration This paper builds a new measure of state capacity for application to contemporary Latin America which improves on existing indices in several ways. First, rather than using a single proxy, it combines multiple dimensions (extraction, security, and the administration of basic services) of the minimal or juridical state. Second, each dimension is measured with multiple indicators, which allows scholars to work around problems of subnational data availability. Third and most centrally, cases are scored using a new, reach-adjusted, population and territory-weighted approach, which provides the first systematic means of assessment of the power of the national state and its uneven reach across territory and into society and thus allows the empirical investigation of a crucial aspect of Latin American stateness.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.32 n.3 20122012-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2012000300004en10.4067/S0718-090X2012000300004
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language English
topic State capacity
State Power
Measurement
Unevenness
Administration
spellingShingle State capacity
State Power
Measurement
Unevenness
Administration
SOIFER,HILLEL DAVID
MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
description This paper builds a new measure of state capacity for application to contemporary Latin America which improves on existing indices in several ways. First, rather than using a single proxy, it combines multiple dimensions (extraction, security, and the administration of basic services) of the minimal or juridical state. Second, each dimension is measured with multiple indicators, which allows scholars to work around problems of subnational data availability. Third and most centrally, cases are scored using a new, reach-adjusted, population and territory-weighted approach, which provides the first systematic means of assessment of the power of the national state and its uneven reach across territory and into society and thus allows the empirical investigation of a crucial aspect of Latin American stateness.
author SOIFER,HILLEL DAVID
author_facet SOIFER,HILLEL DAVID
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title MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
title_short MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
title_full MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
title_fullStr MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
title_full_unstemmed MEASURING STATE CAPACITY IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
title_sort measuring state capacity in contemporary latin america
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
publishDate 2012
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