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Lasting Legacies of State Formation: The Influence of Birth Type on Conflict, Development, and State Failure
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Douglas Lemke
Department of Political Science
Pennsylvania State University
205 Pond Lab
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
814/863-0816
## email not listed ##
Abstract: The stages of state making argument views autonomous political entities’ (APEs) attempts to build states as a series of sequential, connected pieces of a continuous process. The initial stage is the birth of APEs. Birth can take many forms, such as violent independence struggles, de-colonization, end of empire, etc. If the stages of state making are in fact linked, then there will be empirically-observable influences of different birth types on subsequent stages such as conflict participation, development, and state failure. In this paper I develop an argument linking birth type to conflict participation, to economic development and to state failure. I test hypotheses drawn from this argument against the empirical record of all current members of the Correlates of War interstate system, finding considerable support for stages of state making expectations.
Paper title in Conference Program: “Power, War, and State Making”
Prepared for presentation at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 31 August – 3 September 2006.
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L
ASTING
L
EGACIES
OF
S
TATE
F
ORMATION
:
T
HE
I
NFLUENCE
OF
B
IRTH
T
YPE
ON
C
ONFLICT
, D
EVELOPMENT
,
AND
S
TATE
F
AILURE
Douglas Lemke
Department of Political Science
Pennsylvania State University
205 Pond Lab
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
814/863-0816
## email not listed ##
Abstract: The stages of state making argument views autonomous political entities’ (APEs)
attempts to build states as a series of sequential, connected pieces of a continuous process. The
initial stage is the birth of APEs. Birth can take many forms, such as violent independence
struggles, de-colonization, end of empire, etc. If the stages of state making are in fact linked,
then there will be empirically-observable influences of different birth types on subsequent stages
such as conflict participation, development, and state failure. In this paper I develop an
argument linking birth type to conflict participation, to economic development and to state
failure. I test hypotheses drawn from this argument against the empirical record of all current
members of the Correlates of War interstate system, finding considerable support for stages of
state making expectations.
Paper title in Conference Program: “Power, War, and State Making”
Prepared for presentation at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 31 August – 3 September 2006.
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