Building State Capacity in the Caribbean: The State of the Civil Service in Guyana

The article examines the formation of the statehood of modern Turkmenistan through the prism of historical changes that have occurred in the post-Soviet countries. It is noted that after 1991 all former republics of the USSR built new independent states on a fundamentally different basis – interaction between government and society. The authors emphasize that the establishment of trust between the state as an institution and citizens is possible under certain conditions, among which a special place is occupied by a clear organization of civil service and the professionalism of civil servants. The measures that have already been implemented and are being taken by the leadership of Turkmenistan at the present time to solve these problems are considered. It is noted that Turkmenistan acts within the framework and in accordance with the key world-class standards regarding the requirements for the organization of civil service. The measures taken in the country to combat corruption are analyzed.

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Methodological foundations of the reforming and developmentof the state civil service

Public Administration ◽

10.22394/2070-8378-2019-21-3-14-17 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 14-17

Author(s):

EVGENY D. BOGATYREV ◽

Keyword(s):

Civil Service ◽

The State

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Suffering Spectators of Development

10.1093/oso/9780190686710.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Arjun Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Civil Wars ◽

Central Government ◽

State Capacity ◽

State Power ◽

The State ◽

Colonial Period ◽

Alternative View

This chapter offers an alternative view of the incidence and duration of insurgencies in the postcolonial world. Insurgencies and civil wars are seen as the primary symptom of state weakness, the inability of the central government to monopolize violence. Challenging extant explanations that identify poverty and low state capacity as the cause of insurgencies, the chapter shows that colonial insurgencies, also occurring in the context of poverty and state weakness, were shorter and ended in regime victories, while contemporary insurgencies are longer and states are less successful at subduing them. The reason for this is the development of exclusive identities—based on ethnicity, religion, tribe—in the colonial period. These identities serve as bases for mobilization to challenge state power and demand services from the state. Either way, such mobilization means that popular demands for services exceed the willingness to disarm and/or pay taxes, that is, to supply the state.

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