Sebastian Ziaja
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Ziaja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziaja |
| SIGNATURE | ZIAJA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute of Development and Sustainability |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1959-1838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service
E‐government services are often heralded as a silver bullet for governments willing to engage more meaningfully with citizens. Evidence on the effectiveness of these measures for improving citizen‐state relations is scarce, however. Most studies examining e‐government focus on efficiency considerations; few consider potential effects on citizen‐state relations. The present study analyses the effect of an information treatment about the availabili…
Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation
Aid effectiveness is widely understood to suffer when multiple donors operate in the same space, but recent studies indicate benefits of fragmentation. We posit that these mixed findings may reflect differences across aid sectors — and also show how the level of implementation can condition the interpretation of results. Cross-national time-series analysis of 152 countries implies aid fragmentation can promote child survival and improve governanc…
Beyond rich and poor: Identifying global development constellations
More Donors, More Democracy
A country’s democracy improves when it receives democracy aid from more donor countries. This finding appears surprising from a development perspective, as the presence of a large number of donors, or more generally “fragmented aid,” has been shown to negatively affect the recipient country. But fragmented aid can be beneficial: diversity among donors provides choice to the local actors involved in the process of democratization. It thus creates …
Constellations of Fragility: An Empirical Typology of States
We present a typology of states that distinguishes constellations of state fragility based on empirical patterns. State fragility is here defined as deficiencies in one or more of three core functions of the state. These functions include violence control, implementation capacity, and empirical legitimacy. Violence control refers to the state's ability to manage the uses of violence within society. Implementation capacity refers to the state's ab…
Method Factors in Democracy Indicators
Method factors represent variance common to indicators from the same data source. Detecting method factors can help uncover systematic bias in data sources. This article employs confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to detect method factors in 23 democracy indicators from four popular data sources: The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Freedom House, Polity IV, and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. Using three different multi-dimensional …
Disaggregating state fragility: A method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology
This conceptual and methodological article makes the case for a multidimensional empirical typology of state fragility. It presents a framework that defines fragile statehood as deficiencies in one or more of the core functions of the state: authority, capacity and legitimacy. Unlike available indices of state fragility, it suggests a route towards operationalisation that maintains this multidimensionality. The methodology presented should help i…
Foreign aid and the fragile consensus on state fragility
What do fragility indices measure: Assessing measurement procedures and statistical proximity
More Donors, More Democracy
A country’s democracy improves when it receives democracy aid from more donor countries. This finding appears surprising from a development perspective, as the presence of a large number of donors, or more generally “fragmented aid,” has been shown to negatively affect the recipient country. But fragmented aid can be beneficial: diversity among donors provides choice to the local actors involved in the process of democratization. It thus creates …
Disaggregating state fragility: A method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology
This conceptual and methodological article makes the case for a multidimensional empirical typology of state fragility. It presents a framework that defines fragile statehood as deficiencies in one or more of the core functions of the state: authority, capacity and legitimacy. Unlike available indices of state fragility, it suggests a route towards operationalisation that maintains this multidimensionality. The methodology presented should help i…
Method Factors in Democracy Indicators
Method factors represent variance common to indicators from the same data source. Detecting method factors can help uncover systematic bias in data sources. This article employs confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to detect method factors in 23 democracy indicators from four popular data sources: The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Freedom House, Polity IV, and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. Using three different multi-dimensional …
Constellations of Fragility: An Empirical Typology of States
We present a typology of states that distinguishes constellations of state fragility based on empirical patterns. State fragility is here defined as deficiencies in one or more of three core functions of the state. These functions include violence control, implementation capacity, and empirical legitimacy. Violence control refers to the state's ability to manage the uses of violence within society. Implementation capacity refers to the state's ab…
Foreign aid and the fragile consensus on state fragility
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service
E‐government services are often heralded as a silver bullet for governments willing to engage more meaningfully with citizens. Evidence on the effectiveness of these measures for improving citizen‐state relations is scarce, however. Most studies examining e‐government focus on efficiency considerations; few consider potential effects on citizen‐state relations. The present study analyses the effect of an information treatment about the availabili…
What do fragility indices measure: Assessing measurement procedures and statistical proximity
Foreign aid and the fragile consensus on state fragility
Disaggregating state fragility: A method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology
This conceptual and methodological article makes the case for a multidimensional empirical typology of state fragility. It presents a framework that defines fragile statehood as deficiencies in one or more of the core functions of the state: authority, capacity and legitimacy. Unlike available indices of state fragility, it suggests a route towards operationalisation that maintains this multidimensionality. The methodology presented should help i…
Method Factors in Democracy Indicators
Method factors represent variance common to indicators from the same data source. Detecting method factors can help uncover systematic bias in data sources. This article employs confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to detect method factors in 23 democracy indicators from four popular data sources: The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Freedom House, Polity IV, and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. Using three different multi-dimensional …
Constellations of Fragility: An Empirical Typology of States
We present a typology of states that distinguishes constellations of state fragility based on empirical patterns. State fragility is here defined as deficiencies in one or more of three core functions of the state. These functions include violence control, implementation capacity, and empirical legitimacy. Violence control refers to the state's ability to manage the uses of violence within society. Implementation capacity refers to the state's ab…
More Donors, More Democracy
A country’s democracy improves when it receives democracy aid from more donor countries. This finding appears surprising from a development perspective, as the presence of a large number of donors, or more generally “fragmented aid,” has been shown to negatively affect the recipient country. But fragmented aid can be beneficial: diversity among donors provides choice to the local actors involved in the process of democratization. It thus creates …
Beyond rich and poor: Identifying global development constellations
Harmony or Cacophony? A Disaggregated Analysis of Aid Fragmentation
Aid effectiveness is widely understood to suffer when multiple donors operate in the same space, but recent studies indicate benefits of fragmentation. We posit that these mixed findings may reflect differences across aid sectors — and also show how the level of implementation can condition the interpretation of results. Cross-national time-series analysis of 152 countries implies aid fragmentation can promote child survival and improve governanc…
E‐government and citizen‐state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service
E‐government services are often heralded as a silver bullet for governments willing to engage more meaningfully with citizens. Evidence on the effectiveness of these measures for improving citizen‐state relations is scarce, however. Most studies examining e‐government focus on efficiency considerations; few consider potential effects on citizen‐state relations. The present study analyses the effect of an information treatment about the availabili…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Fragility (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works)