Measuring State Capacity in the U.S. States

• In Event: State Building, State Capacity, and State Power

Brief Overview

Subnational variations in state capacity are relevant to policy efficiency. Common metrics of state capacity, like taxation, are not applicable to subnational analysis. We validate a latent-trait state capacity measure for the US states.

Authors

• Hannah M Ridge, University of Chicago

• Joshua Yoshio Lerner, Duke University

• Kiran Auerbach, University of Bergen