Unmaking the State: Succession Conflicts, State Building, and Long-Run Political Development

• In Event: Empires, States, and the Making of Power II. Building and Unbuilding the State: Elites, Bureaucracies, and the Foundations of Political Authority

Brief Overview

This paper examines how succession conflicts generated institutional breakdown, helping to explain durable cross-national variation in state capacity today.

Author

• Daniel Lowery, Harvard University