State Building in the Developing World
October 9--10, 2009, Princeton, NJ
Introductory Remarks
Miguel Centeno
Atul Kohli
Session I: Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Miguel Centeno: Measuring State Capacity
Evan Lieberman: Multilevel Governance: Motivation and Conceptualization
Dan Slater: State Power and Staying Power
David Leonard: Multilevel Networked Governance
Session II: Assessing Competing Theoretical Arguments about State Formation
Diane Davis: Discipline and State Capacity
Atul Kohli: State Capacity for Growth and State Capacity for Distribution
Niraja Gopal Jayal: State Capacity, Legitimacy, and Democracy
David Waldner: Political Science and the Philosophy of Science
Session III: Geographies and Histories
Bruce Cummings: Geographies and Political Economy in Northeast Asia
Julia Strauss: Scale, Geography, and History
Jeremy Seekings: Welfare States in the Global South
Maria Hermínia Tavares: Reforms and Democracy in Brazil
Session IV: Defining a Research Agenda
Peter Evans: Human Capabilities and the State
Patrick Heller: Building the World-Class City
Pratap Mehta: Looking Forwards or Looking Backwards?
Deborah Yashar: Why is Violence and Development Increasing Together?
Closing Remarks
Peter Evans
Deborah Yashar