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Changing the Rules? State-Building and Local Government in Afghanistan

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This paper looks at how a certain understanding of states is affecting the types of activities emphasised in state-building agendas. It proposes an approach to understanding states and their roles, drawing on ideas of institutions and their rules as a means of mediating power, and applies this to a discussion of two 'state-building' initiatives at the subnational level in Afghanistan. It shows how resistance to attempts to impose 'bureaucratic rules', coupled with the international community's failure to understand the role of states in mediating power, has contributed to the failure to date of interventions to reform local government. This has directly affected reconstruction and stability in Afghanistan.

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  • Sarah Lister, 2009. "Changing the Rules? State-Building and Local Government in Afghanistan," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(6), pages 990-1009.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:45:y:2009:i:6:p:990-1009
    DOI: 10.1080/00220380902802222
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    1. Anne Evans & Nick Manning & Yasin Osmani & Anne Tully & Andrew Wilder, 2004. "A Guide to Government in Afghanistan," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 14937, December.
    2. Charles Polidano, 2001. "Why Civil Service Reforms Fail," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(3), pages 345-361, September.
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    1. Frauke de Weijer, 2013. "A Capable State in Afghanistan: a Building Without a Foundation?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-063, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. de Weijer, Frauke, 2013. "A Capable State in Afghanistan: A Building Without a Foundation?," WIDER Working Paper Series 063, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Frauke de Weijer, 2013. "A Capable State in Afghanistan," CID Working Papers 59, Center for International Development at Harvard University.

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