Can public employment schemes significantly affect the nature of the violence process? Can the state, by providing employment in times of need “win the hearts and minds” of its citizens and thus, expand its monopoly of power? This paper answers these two questions by studying the impact of the world’s largest public employment scheme on …
Power outages or blackouts are a recurrent feature in many developing countries across the world. Anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting 9 months after the blackout as peoples’ procreation increases when lights go out. The idea of baby booms following a blackout has been a subject of contention for a long time. It …
Max Weber defined a functioning state as “a human community that (successfully) claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”. This does not apply to Somalia. In Somalia, the effective monopoly of power has not been with any form of state since 1991. It has been topping the list …