Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to
improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this “stateness-first” …

What determines states' ability to influence the contents of international institutions? Extant
scholarship on international economic negotiations highlights the importance of political and …

This paper is concerned with state capacity and autocrat survival. We argue that state
strength in autocracies increases leader tenure but reduces the stability of the regime itself; …

State weakness is often emphasized as a key determinant of democratic breakdowns.
However, previous studies have failed to appreciate how different aspects of state weakness …

The relationship between democracy and bureaucracy is the object of both classic and
contemporary studies in political science. In classic works, scholars argue that there is an …

This article systematically reanalyses the long-run effects of democracy on economic
prosperity by using new Varieties of Democracy and gross domestic product (GDP) per …

More than 1,100 studies have been published that examine the effects of democracy using
cross-national data since 2000. This article examines whether these analyses have …

This study constructs a model of bureaucratic development to provide theoretical
foundations for weak-state traps and the stateness-first hypothesis. In our model, public …

With respect to the relationship between the state and democracy, the scholarly research
thus far has mainly oscillated between two perspectives:'no state, no democracy'versus 'no …

This research aims to analyse research developments related to merit-based recruitment.
Bibliometric analysis was used to determine the dynamics of research topics related to merit …