CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI

This article bridges global and Haiti-specific debates on statehood, the political economy of state and state (de)formation, as well as the conceptualization and measurement of those phenomena. Drawing on data sets and secondary literatures from Haiti and beyond, it argues that despite the unique fe...

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Autor principal: BARANYI,STEPHEN
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20120003000132013-02-15CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITIBARANYI,STEPHEN Haiti Statehood State-building Conceptualization and Measurement This article bridges global and Haiti-specific debates on statehood, the political economy of state and state (de)formation, as well as the conceptualization and measurement of those phenomena. Drawing on data sets and secondary literatures from Haiti and beyond, it argues that despite the unique features of the extremely weak state in Haiti, that case can usefully be compared to the range of weak to fairly strong states in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the process, the article makes a case for considering degrees of sovereignty as an integral dimension of statehood in the region and elsewhere. It demonstrates the relevance of concepts used in other articles in this volume, such as 'weakness by design', in the Haitian case. The article ends by suggesting that it would be useful to look beyond neo-Weberian theories, for example by incorporating critical feminist analysis, to understand the different faces of state weakness and their social construction in the region.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=S0718-090X2012000300013en10.4067/S0718-090X2012000300013
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topic Haiti Statehood
State-building
Conceptualization and Measurement
spellingShingle Haiti Statehood
State-building
Conceptualization and Measurement
BARANYI,STEPHEN
CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI
description This article bridges global and Haiti-specific debates on statehood, the political economy of state and state (de)formation, as well as the conceptualization and measurement of those phenomena. Drawing on data sets and secondary literatures from Haiti and beyond, it argues that despite the unique features of the extremely weak state in Haiti, that case can usefully be compared to the range of weak to fairly strong states in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the process, the article makes a case for considering degrees of sovereignty as an integral dimension of statehood in the region and elsewhere. It demonstrates the relevance of concepts used in other articles in this volume, such as 'weakness by design', in the Haitian case. The article ends by suggesting that it would be useful to look beyond neo-Weberian theories, for example by incorporating critical feminist analysis, to understand the different faces of state weakness and their social construction in the region.
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title CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI
title_short CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI
title_full CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI
title_fullStr CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI
title_full_unstemmed CONTESTED STATEHOOD AND STATE-BUILDING IN HAITI
title_sort contested statehood and state-building in haiti
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
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