The Intermediate Capacity Trap: Explaining Inertia in Developing Bureaucracies

• In Event: JSS 15
  In JSS Session: State Capacity, Centralization, and Historical Legacy

Brief Overview

The paper presents a formal model of state capacity in terms of bureaucratic performance and theorizes the existence of an intermediate capacity equilibrium by relating private sector economic development and bureaucrats’ rent-seeking behavior.

Author

• Amy Basu, Yale University