Politics & Government · Comparative Politics
State Capacity
A topic within Comparative Politics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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- BookPolitical Order in Changing SocietiesSamuel P. Huntington, 1968
Instability comes from mobilisation outrunning institutions, not from poverty — modernisation can destabilise before it stabilises.