Of rulers, rebels, and revenue: State capacity, civil war onset, and primary commodities
In: Journal of peace research, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 321-333
ISSN: 0022-3433
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 321-333
ISSN: 0022-3433
In: European journal of international relations, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 391-415
ISSN: 1460-3713
This article provides a theoretical and empirical account of the zone of negative peace thought to encompass the 16 states of West Africa from independence through the early 1990s. I draw on constructivist theory to argue that the zone of negative peace is a particular kind of interstate culture resulting from the formation of rival role relationships between states in the region. This theoretical approach combined with a compatible empirical measure of rivalry allows a quantitative test of a variety of well-known explanations for the zone of peace phenomenon. The simultaneous equations statistical analysis allows us to model the effect that rival role relationships have on the Lockean culture of anarchy, and vice versa (i.e. the mutual constitution of agents and structures). The results also indicate that a Lockean culture of anarchy, or zone of negative peace, is affected by factors emphasized by realists, liberals, and constructivists in the West African context.
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: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 465-488
ISSN: 0032-3497
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 2, S. 231-257
ISSN: 0305-0629
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 231-257
ISSN: 0305-0629
World Affairs Online
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