State capacity

Readings

Required

• Deborah Brautigam “Building Leviathan: Revenue, State Capacity and Governance,” IDS Bulletin 33, no. 3 (2002): 10–20.
• Chapter 1 in Decentralization and Democratic Governance in Latin America

Personal recommendations

• Melissa Dell “The Persistent Effects of Peru’s Mining Mita,” Econometrica 78, no. 6 (2010): 1863–1903.
• Michael Albertus “Landowners and Democracy: The Social Origins of Democracy Reconsidered,” World Politics 69, no. 2 (2017): 233–276.
• Remy Prud’Homme “The Dangers of Decentralization,” The World Bank Research Observer 10, no. 2 (1995): 201–220.
• Daniel C. Mattingly “Elite Capture: How Decentralization and Informal Institutions Weaken Property Rights in China,” World Politics 68 (2016): 383–412.