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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Strong state, weak society: state capacity, economic development and clientelism in modern Russia
This paper provides a comparative analysis of how highly differentiated regions of Russia perform in terms of economic development, public services delivery and overall quality of governance while linking these factors to levels of political support for the current incumbent during the latest presidential electoral campaign in 2018. It introduces...
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
Pippa Norris, Making democratic governance work: how regimes shape prosperity, welfare, and peace (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
In “Making democratic governance work: how regimes shape prosperity, welfare, and peace”, Harvard Professor Pippa Norris tries to untangle the intricate relationship between liberal democracy, state capacity and human security. Norris’s objective is to explain why liberal democracy should be valued as intrinsically good for prosperity, welfare and peace, the...