Statehood - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics Statehood is defined as the concept of nonprivate responsibility involving the shaping of legal norms, their enforcement, and the settlement of disputes It emphasizes the impartial enforcement of common rules by public powers rather than contingent evolution or party interests
Does an early start help or hurt? Statehood, institutions and modern . . . Statehood experience has received considerable attention in the literature The early development of agriculture, urbanization, taxation, the use of money as a medium of exchange, and experience with government administration have been found to confer a developmental head start (Galor and Weil, 2000; Putterman and Weil, 2010)
Statehood, democracy and preindustrial development It considers three state systems: non-statehood, authoritarian statehood, and democratic statehood These differ in the way a public good is provided, which in turn determines growth rates Under certain assumptions, democratic states grow faster than authoritarian ones, which in turn grow faster than non-states
Does an early start help or hurt? Statehood, institutions and modern . . . Column (6) considers the weighted average of statehood in the countries of ancestry (excluding the country under consideration) with foreign population shares as the weights That is, the adjusted statehood value for Zimbabwe in this case is 0 13 times the statehood value for South Africa plus 0 01 times the statehood value for the United Kingdom
Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa It supported rather than hindered state development in many cases Often (as in the Ashanti empire), slavery was one of the foundations of state structures through the tribute system and slaves’ economic and administrative contributions to statehood (Austin, 2005, Fenske, 2012, Perbi, 2001, Perbi, 2004)
The environmental statehood of ecological restoration: An institutional . . . The elements of an environmental statehood as described above are reflected in the case studies State institutions continue to articulate the value of extraction and land degradation, with attempts to set regulatory standards designed to reduce social conflict and ensure ongoing land-use activities
Rebuilding public authority in Uganda dualist theory, hybrid social . . . Thus, colonisation had far less disruptive consequences in Uganda than in settler-dominated Kenya and did create new indigenous classes that used liberal democratic theory to justify their right to democratic statehood, but they then inherited a state with limited capacities, a weak indigenous ruling class, and unresolved ethnic and regional
Statehood experience and income inequality: A historical perspective . . . Accumulated statehood experience, up to a point, strengthens fiscal and legal capabilities, leading to a more egalitarian distribution of income However, excessive state experience is associated with early emergence of extractive institutions and powerful elites, resulting in persistent inequality
Geographies of security and statehood in Norway’s ‘Battle of the North . . . Norway therefore tends to be bracketed in popular and academic discourse as a ‘Keynesian state’, nationally organized and largely out of step with the global trend toward more neoliberal, entrepreneurial or competitive forms of statehood
The transformation of regional governance in China: The rescaling of . . . The process of change within states to different territorial parameters and structural configurations is therefore defined as the unfolding of the rescaling of statehood (Brenner, 2004b: 105) Furthermore, the NSS framework emphasizes that state space is socially produced and fluid; it is historically embedded and path-dependent ( Brenner, 2004b )