Endogenous state capacity

P Suryanarayan - Annual Review of Political Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Canonical studies of the origins of state capacity have focused on macro-historical or
structural explanations. I review recent research in historical political economy that …

[PDF][PDF] Bureaucrat Assignments as Instruments of Political Control: Evidence from Land Administration Officials in India

A Agnihotri, A Dasgupta, D Kapur - files.osf.io
Bureaucrats face considerable political pressure from special interests to bias their
decisionmaking. For this reason, bureaucratic autonomy is often protected by civil service …