Author : Gregor Walter-Drop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Taking the State (Back) Out? A Macro-Quantitative Analysis of Statehood and the Delivery of Public Goods and Services by : Gregor Walter-Drop
Download or read book Taking the State (Back) Out? A Macro-Quantitative Analysis of Statehood and the Delivery of Public Goods and Services written by Gregor Walter-Drop and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-building is a central tenet of many current development efforts. This primacy of the state rests on a global normative script that emphasizes the modern state's role in providing collective goods and services from security to education to health. We analyze state performance in six dimensions of service delivery in a cross-sectional sample of more than 150 countries. In addition to exploring the explanatory power of statehood, we examine various control variables and also whether external actors affect the delivery of collective goods and services. The core finding of this paper is that there is remarkably little evidence of any consistent relationship between statehood and service delivery. This result casts doubt on the convention wisdom about centrality of the state for collective goods and services, and suggests that other factors - such as external actors - may explain the observed variation.