EPISODE · Oct 26, 2018 · 31 MIN
Why is state capacity so uneven? Professor Anthony Pereira
from ROCKING OUR PRIORS · host Dr Alice Evans
Why is the Brazilian state able to collect taxes & provide services, but fails to enforce law & order, or abate homicides? What explains high state capacity in some domains, and low state capacity in others? And why has state capacity to provide public security worsened over recent decades - notwithstanding democratisation and economic growth? Professor Anthony Pereira draws on his decades of research in Brazil to explain this conundrum. You can read more about his work here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/did/People/Academic-staff/Anthony-Pereira/index.aspx
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Why is the Brazilian state able to collect taxes & provide services, but fails to enforce law & order, or abate homicides? What explains high state capacity in some domains, and low state capacity in others? And why has state capacity to provide public security worsened over recent decades - notwithstanding democratisation and economic growth? Professor Anthony Pereira draws on his decades of research in Brazil to explain this conundrum. You can read more about his work here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/did/People/Academic-staff/Anthony-Pereira/index.aspx
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