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Economic and political foundations of state-making in Africa: understanding state reconstruction
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The article was published on 2006-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Politics & State (polity).read more
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Hybrid Political Orders, Not Fragile States
TL;DR: The concept of state fragility that has gained prominence within the development and security agenda focuses very much on deficiencies and shortcomings of governance in so-called fragile states, whereas the concept of hybrid political order takes a more positive outlook by focusing on the strength and resilience of sociopolitical formations that are present on the ground, that work, and that provide public goods for people and communities as mentioned in this paper.
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Conceptualising the causes and consequences of failed states: a critical review of the literature
TL;DR: A critical review of recent literature which has attempted to define what a "failed state" is and explain why such states emerge is provided in this paper, where it is argued that aggregate indices of "failure" are misleading due to the wide variations of capacity across state functions within a polity.
The state and the informal in sub-saharan african urban economies: revisiting debates on dualism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamics of the urban informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa over recent decades, with reference to these theoretical conceptualization and other approaches, and discussed the role of the state in relation to the informal sector.
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