POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Failed State
31 Mar 2016
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But so too is too little state. Markets are good but they still need a state to function. Elections don"t just happen on their own they have to be well institutionalized and effective. We go through all of these strategies for development. Elections are institutionalized in your world, the problem is we know what countries that are well institutionalized look like we just don"t know how to turn countries that are not institutionalized over. It was a state in the legal sense only. There is essentially one government and they can not challenge it. These countries exist because the world says they do, they exist as legal entities, not because they have power, they exist because they are legal states and because the united nations and its members recognize it. Countries like sierra leone have experienced state collapse. A condition in which the state has lost {its} capacity to perform even the most basic functions.
