The politics of exchange rate-based stabilization versus structural reforms in Latin America
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 42, Heft 9, S. 1193-1216
ISSN: 0010-4140
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 42, Heft 9, S. 1193-1216
ISSN: 0010-4140
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 623-669
ISSN: 0043-8871
This article examines the political geography of state building in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of interstate war has produced a unique situation for contemporary state builders in Africa - they have inherited states with relatively fixed borders encapsulating a variety of environmental and geographic conditions, compounded by varying distributions of population densities. The author examines the effects of a variety of strategies that African rulers have employed to enhance their state-building efforts given the type of national design they inhabit. These strategies include the allocation of citizenship, interventions in land tenure patterns, and the adoption and management of national currencies. The author tests the effects of these strategies on several dimensions of state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2004 using a variety of statistical analyses. The results indicate that the strategies currently adopted by african rulers have generally failed to substantially augment their capacity. (World Politics / SWP)
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In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 623-669
ISSN: 1086-3338
This article examines the political geography of state building in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of interstate war has produced a unique situation for contemporary state builders in Africa—they have inherited states with relatively fixed borders encapsulating a variety of environmental and geographic conditions, compounded by varying distributions of population densities. The author examines the effects of a variety of strategies that African rulers have employed to enhance their state-building efforts given the type of national design they inhabit. These strategies include the allocation of citizenship, interventions in land tenure patterns, and the adoption and management of national currencies. The author tests the effects of these strategies on several dimensions of state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2004 using a variety of statistical analyses. The results indicate that the strategies currently adopted by African rulers have generally failed to substantially augment their capacity.
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 445-464
ISSN: 1467-9221
This paper examines the impact of the conceptual complexity of central bankers on exchange rate volatility during the Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s. Theoretically, this paper develops a framework to study the cognitive style of individual central bankers in conjunction with the institutional features of the central banks they head. The paper also controls for a variety of other common explanations for exchange rate volatility during this time period, including the number of veto players representing the political system and underlying structural features of the Asian economies. Empirically, the cross‐sectional time‐series analysis finds that more conceptually complex central bankers were able to reduce exchange rate volatility during the crisis years, especially when they inhabited highly independent central banks. This paper concludes that linking the study of key individuals to macroeconomic outcomes in the global political economy is a promising area of research.
In: Polity, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 465-488
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 231-257
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: International studies review, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 629-631
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 231-257
ISSN: 0305-0629
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 285-287
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 285-287
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: International studies review, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 629-631
ISSN: 1521-9488
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 69, Heft 3, S. 716-731
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 121, Heft 1, S. 182-183
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 39, Heft 10, S. 1263-1282
ISSN: 0010-4140
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 39, Heft 10, S. 1263-1282
ISSN: 1552-3829
This article examines the role played by war, and public violence more generally, in the state-building experiences of Central America. Bellicist theory expects that wars provide a stimulus to extractive efforts, thus enhancing the autonomy and capacity of the state over time, though recent qualitative studies of South America find the opposite. I expand the reach of bellicist theory to Central America through the broader concept of public violence, which captures the long-term impact of external and internal rivals on the state. The quantitative tests demonstrate that Central American interstate and civil wars reduce the extractive ability of states, consistent with the South American evidence. Interstate rivals stimulate extractive efforts among governments, whereas intrastate rivals detract from those efforts. Incorporating the concept of public violence into bellicist theory thus helps to increase our understanding of Central American state building.