State legitimacy
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Can participatory budgeting build government legitimacy and increase tax revenues in weak states?
Evidence from Sierra Leone shows that digital participatory budgeting can increase government legitimacy in weak states but only increases tax compliance for supporters of the incumbent government.
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The uneven reach of the state: Using machine learning to map local state presence
How can we estimate state presence in areas where direct measurements are lacking? New research offers a solution to measuring state presence using machine learning techniques.
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State-building on the margin: An urban experiment in Medellín
The success of an intervention to increase state presence in gang-controlled neighbourhoods depended on the initial level of gang vs state governance