Democracy and State Capacity: Exploring a J-shaped Relationship

By H. Bäck, A. Hadenius. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The State of State Capacity : a review of concepts, evidence and measures (2013, methodology): “…of countries, where quality of government is measured through the combination of Control of Corruption and Bureaucratic Quality from ICRG, following Bäck and Hadenius (2008), and democracy is measured through the average of Freedom House and Polity Scores taken from the Quality of Government…”
• Transparency is not Enough: Making Transparency Effective in Reducing Corruption (2010, background): “…impediment to development and growth in large parts of the world (see, for example, Mauro, 1995; Ades and Di Tella, 1999; Sandholtz and Koetzle, 2000; Treisman 2000; Montinola and Jackman, 2002; Persson, Tabellini and Trebbi, 2003; Gerring and Thacker, 2004; Bäck and Hadenius, 2008; Charron, 2009).”
• Democracy and State Capacity: Complements or Substitutes? (2015, neutral): “…suggests that democracy does not appear to improve public sector performance dramatically, at least in the short term (Nelson 2007b), and moderate levels of democracy may actually be less promising for fostering state capacity improvements than very low or high levels (Bäck and Hadenius 2008).”
• Measuring state capacity: Theoretical and empirical implications for the study of civil conflict (2010, neutral): “Bäck & Hadenius (2008) demonstrate a curvilinear relationship between democracy and bureaucratic capacity: low levels of democracy (Polity2) and bureaucratic quality (bureaucratic quality) are related, and high levels of democracy and bureaucratic quality are related, but no relationship exists…”