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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    ISBN:
    9781009846707
    9781009846660
    9781009846714
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009846707
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.479kg, 250 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.415kg, 250 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Even if a state is democratic, it will fail its citizens if it cannot raise sufficient revenue or distribute public goods effectively. Keeping the State Weak points to widespread economic informality as a key feature that keeps poor democracies unstable. Jessica Gottlieb traces the colonial roots of this pernicious type of embedded informality and theorizes how it impacts both state citizens and state actors. Quantitative and qualitative evidence shows how widespread informality prevents a would-be middle class from coordinating programmatic claims on the state and how informal intermediaries who benefit from their status resist attempts at formal state-building. The book concludes with a sobering perspective on the potential for formalization campaigns to initiate socio-political transitions and more optimistic suggestions for where a programmatic transition might originate.

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