The Nature and Development of the Modern State

Gill, Graeme

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“…The French and British experiences, for example, are very different, with the former being much more centralist. In addition, single countries have not always followed the same model over time, and have combined different approaches, some more centralised, others more decentralised (Gill, 2003). However, despite the diversity of the European experience and the specificity of the European context, we argue that the evidence of the impact of services on state processes in European history is highly relevant to current state-building initiatives.…”

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“…In its social meaning, the boundary separates 'the state from other non-state, or private, actors and social forces' (Migdal, 2001: 17). The latter was highly visible in European struggles for hegemony between the secular state and the Church (Gill, 2003). In a situation with mixed state and non-state provision of public services, and especially in situations where geographical boundaries are unclear, disputed, or changing, such boundary building may be difficult (Anderson, 1991: 114), and may have an adverse effect on penetration capacity, and thus state-and nationbuilding.…”

Section: Processes Of Penetrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public services are in such a case a tool to buy loyalty and to make disloyalty expensive. Working with local notables rather than imposing power has in some cases been a very effective strategy (Gill, 2003). Furthermore, by providing a clear path for social mobility, publicsector employment has contributed to social harmony and has promoted citizens' identification with the state.…”

Section: Processes Of Accommodationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Political Role of Service Delivery in State‐Building: Exploring the Relevance of European History for Developing Countries

Walle

Scott

2010

Development Policy Review

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Concerns about failed and fragile states have put state-and nationbuilding firmly on the academic and policy agenda, but the crucial role of public services in this process has remained underexplored. The 1960s and '70s generated a substantial set of literature that is largely missing from current writing. It identified state penetration, standardisation, and accommodation as key processes in the state-and nation-building sequence. This article analyses these three processes in Western Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and the role of public services therein, to explore how they may help us to understand the success and failure of state-and nation-building in developing countries and fragile states.

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The Political Role of Service Delivery in State‐Building: Exploring the Relevance of European History for Developing Countries

Walle

Scott

2010

Development Policy Review

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The Budget Process and Inter-Budget Relations in Modern Russia

Morozov¹

2019

Federalism

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Questions of the organization of the budget process, relate not only to the ergonomics of the budget process, they go back to the problem of reproduction of state solvency. Meanwhile, the dependence of the state’s solvency on its efficiency, which, in turn, is a function of budget policy and features of decision-making on the use of public Finance, is not yet fully realized. The role and place of strategic planning documents in the budget policy, their relationship with the basic laws that directly affect the budget and tax, debt policy, financial relations of the Federal budget withthe budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation, local budgets need to be clarified. It is not clear what role national projects should play in budget policy and how they should be reflected in the budget pr oces s. In the study of the chain links of such dependencies the author uses an extraordinary approach. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the budget process is carried out not by means of financial and economic indicators, the main parametersof the budget system, but based on the goals, objectives and expected results of budget policy. The principles of transparency and stability of the budget process, understood asquite applied and «counting» parameters, are proposed as the basis of the study. The criteria for evaluating the conditions of efficiency of formation, consideration, execution and control of budget decisions are introduced. As the results of the study, the author characterizes the tasks and tools to optimize the Federal budget process.

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“…In this respect, the state must be analysed in relation to the society to which it belongs (Jessop, 2001); as a result, the impact of civil society and social movements on the role and capacity of the state must be captured (Hunt, forthcoming 2015). These 'vertical relations' determine the reach of the state, namely its infrastructural power to implement policies and maintain support (Gill, 2003;Hay and Lister, 2006). In particular, the political framing of the design and delivery of social policies and programmes have traditionally been important tools in Latin America for elites to secure and maintain support.…”

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Breaking the Rules, Breaking the Game: External Ideas, Politics and Inclusive Development in Honduras

Hunt

2015

SSRN Journal

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The rise of the new Left has had an important impact on the politics of poverty reduction in Central America, upsetting the status quo for elites in the case of Honduras. After Hurricane Mitch in 1998, international pressure on elites to focus on poverty reduction had only a limited effect. But from 2006, the availability of aid and other resources from Venezuela facilitated a break with donor-sponsored agendas and heralded a new phase in the politics of poverty reduction. Then, in 2009, a coup against Liberal President Manuel Zelaya was precipitated by his 'shift left' whilst in office. This crisis unfastened the apparent stability and long-standing norms of Honduran political life. Drawing on recent fieldwork, this paper uses a political settlements approach to analyse the commitment and capacity to address social policy issues in Honduras through this period. The paper considers the significance and impact of external ideas on the changing distribution of power in society, and the implications for inclusive development.

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The Nature and Development of the Modern State

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The Political Role of Service Delivery in State‐Building: Exploring the Relevance of European History for Developing Countries

The Political Role of Service Delivery in State‐Building: Exploring the Relevance of European History for Developing Countries

The Budget Process and Inter-Budget Relations in Modern Russia

Breaking the Rules, Breaking the Game: External Ideas, Politics and Inclusive Development in Honduras

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