Douglas Kell, head of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), called this spring for an increase of £100 million a year to be spent on food research in the UK alone. While it’s not surprising that the head of a research council would call for more funding, the rationale for said call is [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Food riots?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beatriz Magaloni, food riots, political economy, protest, Steph Haggard on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Measuring state capacity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil Conflict, democracy, state capacity, taxation on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past week I finished up some revisions to a paper that compares 15 different ways that the concept of state capacity has been operationalized in studies of civil conflict. These 15 measures fit into three broad theoretical categories: military capacity, bureaucratic/administrative capacity, and finally political insitutional coherence and quality. Basically, is state capacity the [...]
