Focusing on ‘stateness’ in terms of monopoly of violence and the existence of a professional bureaucracy, we distinguish between past cumulative experience of stateness (‘stateness stock’), the degree of present-day stateness, and the contemporary condition of state fragility. [...] In the original reports, the data reflect the situation in the previous year, not the year of the report. [...] Finally, in terms of the distinction between fragility and non-fragility, the two groups of countries are similar in terms of size in each of the three fragility datasets. [...] As many as 31% of the countries classified as chronically fragile have a difference of more than 1.25 (¼ of the scale) in the stock of the two core features of stateness. [...] Using the alternative depreciation rate slightly decreases the impact of aggregate stock and monopoly of violence stock on the likelihood of being chronically fragile but results remain significant in the full models at at least the 95% level of confidence.
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Table of Contents
- Users Working Paper 59 cover.pdf 1
- Second page UWP 2024 no copyright.pdf 2
- Vaccaro Gisselquist Manuscript for V-Dem WP (28 August 2024).pdf 3
- Introduction 5
- Statebuilding in fragile states 7
- Chronic and temporary fragility, and stateness stock 9
- Empirical strategy, data, and methods 12
- Chronic and temporary fragility 12
- Stateness stock 15
- Methods 20
- Results and discussion 22
- Descriptive analysis 22
- Regression analysis 28
- Conclusions 38
- References 42
