Winning Hearts and Minds: Relative Infrastructural Capacity and Support for Competing Authorities

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Domestic Politics, Sovereignty, and Nationalism

Brief Overview

When multiple authorities claim the same territory, where do citizens prefer power to reside and why? I argue that shifts in intrastate relative capacity—the comparative ability of coexisting authorities to reach and serve territory—move preferences.

Author

• Dihan Shi, Washington University in St Louis