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#PortablePatriotism #TaxExiles #CultureWar #AntiWoke #BritishPolitics #PoliticalSatire #TheBlob #TaxHaven #OffshorePatriots #StateCapacity #UKPublicServices #CultureWarriors #Satire #UKPolitics #MediaGrifters #PoliticalHypocrisy #SatiricalPlanetNews
Everyone debates foreign policy rhetoric.
Markets price execution capacity.
States fail when they can’t implement power.
#Geopolitics #StateCapacity #Capital
3/3 Without control over compute and hardware, are we building intelligence — or merely branding it?
Read TK Arun’s column for BasisPoint — Beyond the Summit: Why the Government Must Put Money Where Its Mouth Is 👇
#StateCapacity
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Military lawyers filling prosecutorial gaps signals distress, not strength. Great institutions attract mastery; politicized ones repel it. If the sharpest prosecutors keep leaving, the question isn’t abstract—it’s visceral: who answers for the crimes never tried? #ProtectJustice #StateCapacity
The future of Pakistan’s foreign policy depends less on realignments and more on internal resilience, governance and economic capacity.
#StateCapacity #GovernanceReform #ForeignPolicyVision
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2/2 Read @ssmumbai.bsky.social’s column on BasisPoint: Why India’s Cities Are Failing the Growth Story
#BPIBudget2026 #UrbanFinance #StateCapacity #PoliticalEconomy #PublicFinance #FiscalState #BudgetPolitics
1/2 The world’s shipbuilding order is being rewritten in an age of geopolitical rivalry and friend-shoring.
#PoliticalEconomy #StateCapacity #IndustrialStrategy #MaritimePower #Geoeconomics
1/2 Global Capability Centres are creating high-quality jobs in India and helping absorb scarce STEM talent. For graduates, it is a clear win: better pay, global exposure, and cutting-edge work.
#BrainDrain #StateCapacity #PoliticalEconomy #TechnologyAndPower #IndiaEconomy
How did telegraphy strengthen state capacity?
Yıldırım, Akyıldız and Cosgel show that in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, it did so by linking physical infrastructure with internal labor markets and personnel mobility. #StateCapacity #EconomicHistory
GDP per capita & economic growth in Venezuela (which one day was a democracy) & in Chile (which one day was a dictatorship). #Venezuela #econsky #democracy #economicgrowth #statecapacity
Democracies are associated with economic growth & prosperity. Democracies tend to be associated with better governance. Venezuela decided to go the opposite way, no democracy, no growth, no prosperity, no governance, hyperinflation.. #venezuela #economicgrowth #statecapacity #democracy #econsky
I wrote a piece on literacy, human capital formation, state capacity & development in South Africa. Link in the comments. #econsky #publicgoods #statecapacity #southafrica #stateformation #democracy #Education
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>> ...a system that has generated vast profits for private corporations while undermining the decision-making capacity of the state and leaving unheeded the aspirations of […]
Today in #Haiti, nearly as many people have been displaced by the human disaster of #EconomicCollapse, failing #StateCapacity and #OrganizedCrime.
Group picture, Workshop Public Administration and State Capacity University of Hohenheim
Thanks to all for participating in our joint workshop on #PublicAdministration and #StateCapacity @unihohenheim.bsky.social. Frederico Finan from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @hjortj.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk gave great keynote lectures.
#ProjectOntario (First Story ⬇️)
Why IS #TVO giving airspace to EIGHT (to mere “dozens” of) Tories? They are welcome to seek their myth of Fi$cal Re$pon$ibility AND
🇺🇸 #StateCapacity AND subsidization of private schools IN the U$A! 🔚 #MatthewSpoke #RealEstate Developer #onpoli #theHub
In light of recent developments, a personal #RequestForLiterature : is there a recommendable comprehensive theory on the relationship between #DemocraticBacksliding / #Authoritarianism and #StateCapacity?
4/10 How did America go from building Hoover Dam ahead of schedule to taking four years just to launch a healthcare website?
The government that once constructed engineering miracles now finds routine functions impossible — especially in Democratic-controlled areas.
#StateCapacity
www.noemamag.com/government-w... “The citizens’ assembly has become part of Paris’s democratic architecture..While one-off assemblies depend on political will.. an institutionalized citizens’ assembly..helps to set the foundation for a new institution that can endure.” #democracy #statecapacity
📘 New in Governance: Anna Persson, Frida Boräng & Ruth Carlitz introduce ideational reach—a fresh take on state capacity.
It’s not just about institutions, but about belief in the idea of the state as legitimate authority. 🧠🏛️🌍
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#StateCapacity #Governance #PoliticalScience
Key insight: It worked just as well if only mid-level managers got the app. The bottleneck wasn't lack of oversight, but the managers' struggle to get the info they needed to implement effectively. Easier access was the key unlock. #Management #StateCapacity
Care about #effectivegovernment? Really excellent presentation on best practices for procuring and developing government software projects by @waldo.net to Michigan state legislature. Very insightful, digestible, and entertaining. (Starts at 8 min mark.) #statecapacity
Your engagement and insights made the session even more enriching! Stay tuned for more thought-provoking discussions ahead. 🔎
#StateCapacity #PublicPolicy #AcademicTalks #HITAP
Infographic titled 'A Framework for Democratic State Capacity: What Government Needs to Get the Job Done' by the Roosevelt Institute. The infographic is divided into two sections: Internal and External. Internal includes Personnel (talent), Expertise and information (data and knowledge), and Processes and paradigm (organization culture). External includes Constructive judicial and legislative scrutiny, Effective regulatory and administrative structures, and Supportive interest groups and constituencies.
Important reminders for building democratic #StateCapacity:
🔷 It's not just a matter of having “more” or “less” gov't—it’s about making gov't work better
🔷 Not all state capacity is made equal—some capacities directly conflict with democratic principles rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Image displaying a diagram titled 'A Framework for Democratic State Capacity' by the Roosevelt Institute. It includes two main categories: Policy Development and Policy Implementation. Policy Development emphasizes developing policy solutions for complex, diverse, and urgent problems in a timely and representative manner. Policy Implementation focuses on implementing solutions in ways that have the best chance of getting desired results, and highlights the need for solutions to be effective and resistant to special interest capture.
In order to build a new, more inclusive & dynamic political economy, we need to reimagine how state institutions are structured & optimized.
We’ll need to actively build democratic #StateCapacity.
@ksabeelrahman.bsky.social outlines a framework to do so rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Key reminders for building democratic #StateCapacity:
🔹It's not just a matter of having “more” or “less” gov't—it’s about making gov't work *better*
🔹Not all state capacity is made equal—some capacities directly conflict with democratic principles
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ICYMI❕Industrial policy is back—how can we make it better? Our top stories of the week:
✅ An #EconomicSeaChage in labor & industry
✅ Building robust #StateCapacity
✅ Relying on courts to decide crypto's fate is risky
Our weekly #RooseveltRundown ⬇️ rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/03/15/s...
