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Terror, violence, coercion : states and the use of (il)legitimate force / Bettina Koch -- International law and the use of armed force by states / Abel S. Knottnerus -- Securitization and terroristization : analyzing states' usage of the rhetoric of terrorism / Priya Dixit -- From colonialism to globalization : state violence in modern India / Eva-Maria Nag -- Violence on the periphery of the Thai state and nationhood / Karin Zackari -- Violence from above, violence from below : the state and policing citizens in Mubarak's Egypt / Dina Rashed -- Killing the chicken to scare the monkey : some notes on state terror in the People's Republic of China / Peter R. Moody -- Violence by proxy : state-sponsored rebels and criminals in Chechnya / Yelena Biberman -- U.S.-drones strikes : acts of terror, violence, or coercion? / Bettina Koch

In this era of renewed federalism, state governments take center stage advancing ambitious legislative agendas, pioneering innovative public policy, and providing much needed political leadership. The "devolution revolution" of the 1990s transferred many of the nation's principal domestic programs from federal to state management, often without transferring the necessary funding. This combination of expanded responsibilities and deficient resources has left many states in financial turmoil-unable to fulfill policy promises. At the same time, escalating concerns over national security have pro

For decades, the Democrats have been viewed as the party of the poor, with the Republicans representing the rich. Recent presidential elections, however, have shown a reverse pattern, with Democrats performing well in the richer blue states in the northeast and coasts, and Republicans dominating in the red states in the middle of the country and the south. Through multilevel modeling of individual level survey data and county- and state-level demographic and electoral data, we reconcile these patterns. Furthermore, we find that income matters more in red America than in blue America. In poor states, rich people are much more likely than poor people to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but in rich states (such as Connecticut), income has a very low correlation with vote preference. Adapted from the source document.

Introduction -- Federal floors and state ceilings -- Religion clause arguments -- Involuntary servitude, freedom of speech, search and seizure -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Arizona -- Arkansas -- California -- Colorado -- Connecticut -- Delaware -- Florida -- Georgia -- Hawaii -- Idaho -- Illinois -- Indiana -- Iowa -- Kansas -- Kentucky -- Louisiana -- Maine -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Michigan -- Minnesota -- Mississippi -- Missouri -- Montana -- Nebraska -- Nevada -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New Mexico -- New York -- North Carolina -- North Dakota -- Ohio -- Oklahoma -- Oregon -- Pennsylvania -- Rhode Island -- South Carolina -- South Dakota -- Tennessee -- Texas -- Utah -- Vermont -- Virginia -- Washington -- West Virginia -- Wisconsin -- Wyoming.

Institutions have become the hallmark of development economics (e.g. Sokoloff and Engerman 2000, Acemoglu et al. 2002, Brunnschweiler 2008, Nunn 2008, Galor and Moav 2012, Voth and Voigtlander 2015). The state constitutes a crucial institution driving the development process. This can be seen by the strong parallels in human history between the emergence of mighty states on the one hand and economic, scientific and cultural progress on the other hand (e.g. Ancient Egypt, Classic Greece, Rome). Yet while a powerful state appears as a sine qua non condition of development broadly defined, it is not necessarily tantamount to economic progress and prosperity as exemplified by the numerous mighty autocracies that have undermined their countries' development in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. State power is therefore defined as the state's ability to broadcast power (military, police), and state capacity captures the capacity of the state to collect taxes and enforce property rights (e.g. Besley and Persson 2010). State power is necessary for a government to develop state capacity, yet it is not necessarily conducive to development-friendly institutions. This short note constitutes a first attempt to clarify the distinction between the two notions, and to hint at the drivers of state power, with a particular emphasis on geography.

Examines research on, and importance of, state courts, including dissimilitude of US state high courts; focuses on the case of abortion and judicial review of restrictive abortion legislation. Assesses factors associated with the duration of time between legislative enactment of a restrictive statute and the court docketing a case in which a constitutional challenge is made, and the forces affecting the individual justices' votes to invalidate or uphold that legislation.

"A selected list of references for the study of state government": p. 481-486. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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