Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States
What Do We Know? What Can Comparative Analysis Add
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel M Gisselquist (0000-0003-0034-5554, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 656 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-21 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716214546991 |
| OpenAlex | W2163984651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 46 |
Why and how some states transition successfully from fragile to more robust-and some do not-are both topical and age-old questions. This volume of The ANNALS addresses these questions with particular attention to the role of foreign aid, offering new traction on theory development on state-building through the use of comparative analysis. Contributions cover selected major cases of aid-supported state-building from the end of the Second World War to the present. Collectively, they highlight the potential for external assistance both to stimulate change and to alter incentives toward institution-building in fragile states. They also show the limits of external assistance by emphasizing the decisive influence of domestic institutional legacies and political dynamics. This article frames the issues addressed in this volume and draws out key findings relevant to current public debates, including the limits to aid, the influence of historical state strength, institutional change through colonial and postcolonial interventions, and political economy incentives to maintain state weakness
Annals · Comparative politics · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Incentive · Institution · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · State (computer science) · State-building · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Public Administration
Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes
Between Practicality and Politics
“Securitized” UK aid projects in Africa
Rewarding good political behavior
Bring back institution capability in fragile situations
Disentangling aid dynamics in statebuilding and peacebuilding
Breaking the Balance? The Impact of Peacekeeping Deployments on Civil–Military Relations
Two-dimensional approach to governmental excellence for human development in developing countries
Past stateness, present strength
We Comply with a Little Help from Our Friends
Varieties of fragility
The Impact of Aid Dynamics on State Effectiveness and Legitimacy
Effects and side effects of European Union assistance on the former Soviet republics
Political Order in Changing Societies
When Things Fell Apart
America's Role in Nation-Building
Aid, Policies, and Growth
The logic of comparative social Inquiry
From Max Weber
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992
Rethinking Social Inquiry
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
Shaping the Political Arena
Foreign Aid, War, and Economic Development
Looking Like a State
The Tyranny of Experts
Introducing the International System(s) Dataset (ISD), 1816–2011
World development report 2011
Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States
Beyond bin Laden
State Building, Security and Development
The Marshall Plan and Its Meaning
The Marshall Plan and Its Meaning
Politics as Vocation
State-building
Making Democracy Work
Why Africa's Weak States Persist
Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research
Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict
Good Enough Governance
The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison
The Strategy of Paired Comparison
The Methodology of Necessary Conditions
Paired Comparison and Theory Development
Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa
II. The Comparable-Cases Strategy in Comparative Research
Governing the Market
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
The autonomous power of the state
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
States and Social Revolutions
| Citations per year | 1.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |