The External and Internal Determinants of State Capacity in New Members States of the European Union

• In Event: Political Development and State Building

Brief Overview

What is the effect of external financial assistance on state capacity? We are collecting a new dataset through a survey experiment with 2478 Polish local governments and plan to use quasi-random geographic cut-offs in funding to answer this question.

Authors

• Pawel Charasz, Duke University

• Jan P. Vogler, University of Virginia