State-building, state boundaries and border control

Finer, S. E.

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“…For the argument in the text, it is crucial that exit is not free, but can only be permitted (or even commanded) by the ruler. Finer 1974. and which technologies of oppression are most successful. The difference is therefore one of degree rather than of kind.…”

Section: Collective Learning and The Emergence Of Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance

Mantzavinos

North

Shariq

2004

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In this article, we provide a broad overview of the interplay among cognition, belief systems, and institutions, and how they affect economic performance. We argue that a deeper understanding of institutions' emergence, their working properties, and their effect on economic and political outcomes should begin from an analysis of cognitive processes. We explore the nature of individual and collective learning, stressing that the issue is not whether agents are perfectly or boundedly rational, but rather how human beings actually reason and choose, individually and in collective settings. We then tie the processes of learning to institutional analysis, providing arguments in favor of what can be characterized as "cognitive institutionalism." Besides, we show that a full treatment of the phenomenon of path dependence should start at the cognitive level, proceed at the institutional level, and culminate at the economic level.

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Section: Collective Learning and The Emergence Of Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance

Mantzavinos

North

Shariq

2004

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“…Repeated conquest of England prevented the emergence of strong regional communities (Strayer 1970;Finer 1974). Danish invasion eliminated the kingdoms of Northumberland, East Anglia and split Mercia; Wessex wiped out the Danish rulers; the Danes won the kingdom back in 1017; then came the Norman conquest.…”

Section: Community and Scale In The Post-roman Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience

Börner¹,

Eigmüller²

2015

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Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology addresses contemporary themes in the fi eld of Political Sociology. Over recent years, attention has turned increasingly to processes of Europeanization and globalization and the social and political spaces that are opened by them. These processes comprise both institutional-constitutional change and new dynamics of social transnationalism. Europeanization and globalization are also about changing power relations as they affect people's lives, social networks and forms of mobility.The Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology series addresses linkages between regulation, institution building and the full range of societal repercussions at local, regional, national, European and global level, and will sharpen understanding of changing patterns of attitudes and behaviours of individuals and groups, the political use of new rights and opportunities by citizens, new confl ict lines and coalitions, societal interactions and networking, and shifting loyalties and solidarity within and across the European space. We welcome proposals from across the spectrum of Political Sociology including on dimensions of citizenship; political attitudes and values; political communication and public spheres; states, communities, governance structure and political institutions; forms of political participation; populism and the radical right; and democracy and democratization.

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“…In reality, this process happened through a prolonged series of conflicts between the center and the subunits and through the consolidating state’s gradual penetration of the provinces through expansion of its “infrastructural power” (Mann 1993). As a consequence, “struggles arose between center and periphery over the new ‘right’ to tax” (Finer 1974:98). Such activities were followed by the replacement of feudal lords with tax collectors and governors who were placed under the direct control of the sovereign (Finer 1974; Ardant 1975).…”

Section: Theorizing Systems Change: the Emergence Of The Modern Terrimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a consequence, “struggles arose between center and periphery over the new ‘right’ to tax” (Finer 1974:98). Such activities were followed by the replacement of feudal lords with tax collectors and governors who were placed under the direct control of the sovereign (Finer 1974; Ardant 1975).…”

Section: Theorizing Systems Change: the Emergence Of The Modern Terrimentioning

confidence: 99%

Growing Sovereignty: Modeling the Shift from Indirect to Direct Rule

Cederman

Girardin

2010

International Studies Quarterly

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ETH Zü richDrawing on theories of historical sociology, we model the emergence of the territorial state in early modern Europe. Our modeling effort focuses on systems change with respect to the shift from indirect to direct rule. We first introduce a one-dimensional model that captures the tradeoff between organizational and geographic distances. In a second step, we present an agent-based model that features states with a varying number of organizational levels. This model explicitly represents causal mechanisms of conquest and internal state-building through organizational bypass processes. The computational findings confirm our hypothesis that technological change is sufficient to trigger the emergence of modern, direct-state hierarchies. Our theoretical findings indicate that the historical transformation from indirect to direct rule presupposes a logistical, rather than the commonly assumed exponential, form of the loss-of-strength gradient.

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State-building, state boundaries and border control

Cited by 78 publications

References 2 publications

Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance

Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance

European Integration, Processes of Change and the National Experience

Growing Sovereignty: Modeling the Shift from Indirect to Direct Rule

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