Building State Capacity Locally: International Interventions, Delegation, and Local Governance in Fragile States

• In Event: Actors in International Relations: Beyond National Governments

Brief Overview

I argue that international actors can disincentivize local elites' rent-seeking by engaging with local residents. Using a novel dataset and semi-structured interviews from a case in Nepal, I find support for my theory and mechanism.

Author

• Annamaria Prati, Washington University in St Louis