TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGN

Guillermo O'Donnell drew attention to "brown spots" in Latin America's political topography, which he defined as peripheral regions where the presence of the republican state is attenuated and more arbitrary forms of power hold sway. Similarly uneven projections of state authorit...

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Autor principal:	BOONE,CATHERINE
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2012
Materias:	State-building Africa Political Economy Côte d'Ivoire Territory
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-090X20120003000072013-02-15TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGNBOONE,CATHERINE State-building Africa Political Economy Côte d'Ivoire Territory Guillermo O'Donnell drew attention to "brown spots" in Latin America's political topography, which he defined as peripheral regions where the presence of the republican state is attenuated and more arbitrary forms of power hold sway. Similarly uneven projections of state authority are visible across sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews three ways of explaining such unevenness in the state's reach: (a.) a geographic, economic, and demographic determinism perspective, (b.) a historical-sociological perspective, and (c.) a political perspective centered on strategic bargaining between social actors and state actors. We propose that unevenness in state quality is often an artifact of state-building, rather than evidence of state failure. An analysis of state-building in modern Africa, focusing on Côte d'Ivoire, explores some of these dynamics.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=S0718-090X2012000300007en10.4067/S0718-090X2012000300007
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description	Guillermo O'Donnell drew attention to "brown spots" in Latin America's political topography, which he defined as peripheral regions where the presence of the republican state is attenuated and more arbitrary forms of power hold sway. Similarly uneven projections of state authority are visible across sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews three ways of explaining such unevenness in the state's reach: (a.) a geographic, economic, and demographic determinism perspective, (b.) a historical-sociological perspective, and (c.) a political perspective centered on strategic bargaining between social actors and state actors. We propose that unevenness in state quality is often an artifact of state-building, rather than evidence of state failure. An analysis of state-building in modern Africa, focusing on Côte d'Ivoire, explores some of these dynamics.
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title	TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGN
title_short	TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGN
title_full	TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGN
title_fullStr	TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGN
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title_sort	territorial politics and the reach of the state: unevenness by design
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
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TERRITORIAL POLITICS AND THE REACH Of THE STATE: UNEVENNESS BY DESIGN

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