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  • The State Failure Debate and the Neglected Elite

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    Karlsson, Malin
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    Karlsson, Malin A.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Descriptive terms such as “weak”, “failed”, “dysfunctional” and “collapsed”, are frequently used to connote certain characteristics of statehood. Most scholars agree that states attributed these descriptions are, to some extent, experiencing deficient “capacity” to perform certain functional tasks expected of states. The western state is used as the yardstick to evaluate such deficiency. Due to the western understanding of state performativity, the state failure literature neglects that the state is a political construct erected from historical power struggles. This paper suggests a decentralisation of the state from the ...
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    Descriptive terms such as “weak”, “failed”, “dysfunctional” and “collapsed”, are frequently used to connote certain characteristics of statehood. Most scholars agree that states attributed these descriptions are, to some extent, experiencing deficient “capacity” to perform certain functional tasks expected of states. The western state is used as the yardstick to evaluate such deficiency. Due to the western understanding of state performativity, the state failure literature neglects that the state is a political construct erected from historical power struggles. This paper suggests a decentralisation of the state from the state failure scholarship and will demonstrate how the structural characteristics of elites and their agency mutually reinforce ways of obtaining power that are incompatible with the western idea of statehood, and as such, are constitutive of what has been defined as state failure
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    Conference Title
    Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2015: The Future of Politics and Political Science
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    https://www.governanceinstitute.edu.au/magma/media/upload/ckeditor/files/online%20version%2021-APSA%20Brochure.pdf
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    © The Author(s) 2015. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the author(s).
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    Political Science not elsewhere classified
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/125423
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