Websites
- Taxation, resource mobilisation and state performance
- J DiJohn / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2010
- The process of tax collection is one of the most powerful lenses in political economy to assess the distribution of power in a polity. Indeed, there is a long history of thinking in political economy ...
- War, state collapse and reconstruction: phase 2 of the Crisis States Programme
- Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2006
- The political economy of conflict is central to understanding the prospects of peace-building. The situations where conflicts are based more on indivisible stakes, it may be necessary to inject signif...
- Economic initiatives to tackle conflict: bringing politics back in
- D. Keen / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2009
- This paper is intended to give a sense of some of the potential, problems and dilemmas that surround the use of economic initiatives. The author highlighted five important dangers that need to be c...
- Trading conflict for development: utilising the trade in minerals from eastern DR Congo for development
- N. Garrett;H. Mitchell / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2009
- This paper relays that the renewed outbreak of violence in North Kivu in the second half of 2008 saw the long running insecurity in Eastern DR Congo become the top global news story for two weeks a...
- Strong party, weak state? Frelimo and state survival through the Mozambican civil war: an anlytical narrative on state-making
- J. Sumich;J. Howana / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007
- Mozambique has been described as a model of state resilience as the ruling Frelino Party has managed to maintain power through years of economic collapse and civil conflict. This paper explains how a ...
- District creation and decentralisation in Uganda
- E. Green / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2008
- Within the vast literature on decentralisation, there is little attention on one important aspect of decentralisation – namely the creation of new sub-national administrative units. This despite...
- Policing, regime change, and democracy: reflections from the case of Mexico
- D. E. Davis / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007
- This paper explores the experience of attempts to introduce new policing operations and restore order in post-revolutionary Mexico, with the aim of generating policy insights for countries experien...
- Making law in rural East Africa: SunguSungu in Kenya
- S. Heald / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007
- Internal security is usually seen as pre-eminently a matter for the state and its specialized institutions of legislature, police and judiciary. In the midst of growing crime and distrust of the po...
- Economic and political foundations of state-making in Africa: understanding state reconstruction
- G. Hesselbein;F. Golooba-Mutebi;J. Putzel / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2006
- This paper examines the processes of state reconstruction in Uganda and Rwanda, and the challenge posed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in light of the experience of the stable state in Tanzan...
- Understanding state-building and local government in Afghanistan
- S. Lister / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007
- State-building has emerged has a key agenda of development aid, particularly in post-conflict contexts. This paper explores the important role of local government reform in the state-building proce...
