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Articles by Ruth Carlitz
The Power of Ideational Reach: A New Approach to State Capacity
1 Introduction: A New Approach to State Capacity Since the state was “brought back in” in the 1980s (Evans et al. 1985), state capacity has become an increasingly popular concept among scholars of comparative politics and political economy.
State-Building in a Diverse Society
Home | Faculty & Research Overview | Research Diversity can pose fundamental challenges to state-building and development. The Tanzanian Ujamaa policy — one of post-colonial Africa’s largest state-building experiments — addressed these challenges by resettling a diverse population in planned villages, where children received political education. We combine differences in exposure to Ujamaa across space and age to identify long-term impacts of the policy.
Gendered accountability: when and why do women’s policy priorities get implemented?
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Who gets what – and how efficiently? Assessing the spatial allocation of public goods - Ruth D. Carlitz, 2019
Introduction For a number of public goods, spatial distribution matters to determine how well a government is serving its citizens. This is particularly so in contexts where people rely on the state to provide things like access to clean water, roads to take their goods to market, and dispensaries with life-saving drugs.
Tanzania loves its new anti-corruption president. Why is he shutting down media outlets?
Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli strode into office in November promising to reduce corruption, cut wasteful spending and improve public services. These initiatives are welcome in the East African nation, which, while seen as a bastion of political stability in an at-times volatile region, consistently ranks low on human development and high on graft. But Magufuli’s government imposed new restrictions on the media recently, and brought that commitment into question.
Why is the Tanzanian government making information illegal?
Tanzania’s recent proposal to criminalize the publication of “misleading” statistics or data reads a bit like the high school valedictorian being caught smoking in the bathroom and, rather than ruefully extinguishing her cigarette, proceeding to blow smoke in the face of the school principal. Tanzania rose to the top of the class of aid-dependent countries by enacting reforms aimed at promoting transparency, accountability and the rule of law.
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