Venue: Room 250, Mong Mai Wai Building, Zijingang Campus
Speaker: Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Abstract:
At the heart of state capacity—the ability to see policies through to fruition, to being implemented faithfully—is the question of how authority is established. When and how do states succeed in shaping people’s behaviour, in prompting citizens to obey the state’s rules? Rulemaking is a complicated undertaking, involving numerous parties, coming with different agendas. Implementation of the rules, or laws, is even more complicated, given the diverse stakeholders, each seeking to establish authority. These stakeholders clash, cooperate, and compromise as they hammer out the definitive guidelines about how others should act.