Author: Joy Chen

By Joy Chen, Erik H. Wang, and Xiaoming Zhang Few tasks of governance are as important and challenging at the same time as state-building. A strong state is pivotal for economic development and human welfare, but making it possible in the first place has proven prohibitively difficult in many regions of the developing world. This … Continue reading Leviathan Reborn: Bureaucratic Legacies of China and the First Great Divergence