Criminal Governance and State Capacity Quiz

A Typology of Criminal Governance Regimes and State Capacity

• There are five types of criminal governance regimes: insurgent, bandit, symbiotic, predatory, and split.
• State capacity can be measured through output-based, input-based, and legibility-based definitions and measures.
• Extractive capacity refers to the state's ability to extract resources from its citizens and the economy.
• Coordination capacity refers to the state's ability to organize collective action among different actors and to create a unified market with secure property rights.
• Compliance capacity refers to the acceptance and cooperation of society in following and co-producing the rules and policies of the state.
• Bureaucratic quality is key for all functions of the state, and its quality can be measured through autonomy, capacity, education, professionalism, and embeddedness.
• Bureaucratic quality can also be assessed through country expert surveys, bureaucrat surveys, administrative data on bureaucrats, and administrative data on bureaucrats' performance.
• Legibility refers to the breadth and depth of the state's knowledge about its citizens and is essential for extraction, coordination, and compliance.
• Empirical measures of legibility include the existence of censuses or cadasters, strength of statistical agencies, and quality of data.
• Legibility enables the state to identify potential tax revenue sources, plan and implement policies effectively, and monitor compliance with regulations and laws.
• State capacity varies among countries, and some states are more capable than others.
• Identifying more capable states can be done through measuring GDP per capita, infant mortality, crime rates, taxation, bureaucratic quality, and military spending.