This dissertation involves three essays on state capacity. The first essay presents a formal model of state building as a domestic bargaining game between local elite and central ruler to explore the relationship between warfare and fiscal centralization. In this study, I show t…
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This thesis provides an analysis of the politics of the design and implementation of Nigeria's Conditional Grant Scheme to Local Government Areas (CGS to LGAs) through the lenses of elite commitment and state capacity. The study employs Brinkerhoff's (2000) and Fukuyama's (2013)…
This dissertation asks why are some states able to encourage peaceful Islamic mobilization and discourage violent Islamic mobilization while other states seemingly cannot. It contends that by providing channels for institutionalized participation, which may include elections, po…
State governance based on a clan system lacks definition in the early days of the twenty-first century. This dissertation seeks to explore the structures and functions of the clan system in the Republic of Azerbaijan. This requires examination of the formal and informal institut…
First, while mass armed civil conflicts predominantly occur in weak states, which are states that lack state capacity, it is unclear why not all weak states experience mass armed civil conflict. Second, political stability and highly unequal distribution of resources are opposin…