Unpacking States in the Developing World: Capacity, Performance, and Politics

Centeno, Miguel Ángel; Kohli, Atul; Yashar, Deborah J.

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“…8 The perennial challenge of measuring state capacity is to avoid conflating state capacity (which is about institutions) with state performance (which is about outcomes). See the discussion in Centeno et al (2017). 9 The practice of measurement involves making choices subject to significant trade-offs (e.g., objective versus subjective measurement, or de jure versus de facto).…”

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Is There a Fiscal Resource Curse? Resource Rents, Fiscal Capacity and Political Institutions

2018

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“…Here we turn to the question of whether the political enabling of bureaucratic capacity can explain how ‘effectively’ extraction is pursued in these two states (Centeno et al., 2017; Geddes, 1994; Hickey, 2013). In quantitative terms such as production and royalty collection as a percentage of targets set by the centre, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are not too far apart (see above).…”

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The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States: A Comparative Analysis of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

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Chhotray²

2020

Development and Change

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This article presents a multidimensional account of the politics of resource extraction in two subnational regions of India in response to the question: what are the political conditions that facilitate extraction? Emerging from the same moment of state creation in 2000, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are adjacent mineral-rich states with similar demographic profiles and comparable levels of economic development. The authors argue that despite these similarities and India's highly centralized legislative framework for natural resource governance, the two states have developed distinctive 'extractive regimes' in the years since statehood, which contrast in important ways across three dimensions: political organization and history, institutional effectiveness, and the nature and management of social resistance. The article offers the first in-depth, comparative account of how subnational territorial reorganization in India acts as a critical juncture enabling the formation of extractive regimes, which have also converged in important ways in recent years.1. Adivasis refer to the indigenous peoples of India, who are also broadly described as tribal and categorized as the Scheduled Tribes within the Constitution. We will use 'adivasi' and 'tribal' interchangeably in this article. Development and Change 51(3): 843-873.Scholars writing on the politics of extraction have challenged the hegemony of the 'resource curse' paradigm (Ross, 2015) in a number of ways. This 2. The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 allows citizens to file information requests on aspects of governance, which the state is legally bound to respond to.

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“…While insightful, this range of explanations does not shed adequate light upon the particular political conditions that directly shape the 'deployment of state capacity' for the pursuit of welfare (Vom Hau and Hickey, 2016: 1). Most writings on state capacity agree that the organisational quality of the bureaucracy, on the one hand, and external embeddedness of the state in social networks, on the other, are cardinal elements (Vom Hau, 2012), but capacity itself must be treated separately from the purposes for which it is used (Centeno et al, 2017). These authors also emphasise that while leadership is not included as a part of the definition of state capacity, political leadership -as a direct outcome of the broader political context -is highly pertinent to its exercise.…”

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The Political Prioritisation of Welfare in India: Comparing the Public Distribution System in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand

2018

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The idea of state responsibility for ensuring food security has gained ground, with strong popular mobilisations for the Right to Food around the world; but important variations prevail, both in the articulation of demands around food security interventions and in political responses to these. This paper takes a close look at India's Public Distribution System, a programme with a long history and clear national-level, legislative backing, but considerable differences in prioritisation at the subnational level. Through an empirically rich and innovative comparison of Chhattisgarh with Jharkhand-both created at the same time, in 2000-it asks why the opportunities afforded by statehood allowed Chhattisgarh to politically prioritise the PDS, but not Jharkhand. The paper finds that the explanation lies in the interrelated dimensions of political competition, the nature of pressures exerted by electorally significant societal groups, and political enablement of bureaucratic capacity. Finally, the analytical framework at the heart of the paper contributes to the emerging literature on the political conditions that allow the deployment of state capacity for the promotion of welfare.

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Unpacking States in the Developing World: Capacity, Performance, and Politics

Cited by 76 publications

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Is There a Fiscal Resource Curse? Resource Rents, Fiscal Capacity and Political Institutions

Is There a Fiscal Resource Curse? Resource Rents, Fiscal Capacity and Political Institutions

The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States: A Comparative Analysis of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

The Political Prioritisation of Welfare in India: Comparing the Public Distribution System in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand

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