State building : Governance and world order in the 21st century
- New York Cornell University Press 2004
- 137p ix
Table of contents: 1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness; The Contested Role of the State; Scope versus Strength; Scope, Strength, and Economic Development; The New Conventional Wisdom; The Supply of Institutions; The Demand for Institutions; Making Things Worse2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration; Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations; The Ambiguity of Goals; Principals, Agents, and Incentives; Decentralization and Discretion; Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel; Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications3. Weak States and International Legitimacy; The New Empire; The Erosion of Sovereignty; Nation-Building; Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level; Beyond the Nation-State4. Smaller but Stronger Bibliography; Index