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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce can have outsize, long-lasting effects on society. The Scarce State reframes our understanding of the political economy of hinterlands through a multi-method study of Northern Ghana alongside shadow cases from other world regions. Drawing on a historical natural experiment, the book shows how the contemporary economic and political elite emerged in Ghana's hinterland, linking interventions by an ostensibly weak state to new socio-economic inequality and grassroots efforts to reimagine traditional institutions. The book demonstrates how these state-generated societal changes reshaped access to political power, producing dynastic politics, clientelism, and violence. The Scarce State challenges common claims about state-building and state weakness, provides new evidence on the historical origins of inequality, and reconsiders the mechanisms linking historical institutions to contemporary politics.

This book explores the politics of hinterlands in the developing world, showing that even in peripheral regions where the state appears weakest, it has significant power to transform society. The book challenges classic theories of state-building and provides lessons for policymakers promoting development in some of the world's poorest regions.

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'Using the case of Ghana to study state-society relations in the hinterland, Prof. Noah Nathan's excellent new book forces his readers to rethink common claims about the state. In particular, Prof. Nathan provides a fresh and compelling theory of when, how and why even a 'weak' state can have everlasting effects on core development outcomes such as inequality, elite capture, electoral competition, clientelism and political violence. This book should be a must read for anyone interested in developing countries' political and economic trajectories.' Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania 'In this theoretically original and empirically rich book, Noah Nathan reveals the outsized impact of rare state interventions on social, economic, and political relations in the hinterlands. Transforming the rhetoric and refocusing the analysis on the scarcity of the state transforms our understanding of governance and government throughout the world.' Margaret Levi, Stanford University 'By understanding the state as scarce - and not weak - in the hinterland regions of developing countries, the reader sees the state through a different framework that is at once cleverly insightful and thought-provokingly complex. The theory presented in this book provides an important corrective to foundational theories of historical political economy while simultaneously earning it a place on the shelf next to these classics.' Natalie Wenzell Letsa, Governance ' makes a major contribution to the literature on the state and should also be read with great interest by scholars of traditional leadership, social institutions, and local politics.' Lauren Honig 'The Scarce State offers a significant advancement in our understanding of African states, and its downstream impact on inequality, elite capture, political dynasties, the use of clientelism and violence in electoral politics and the strategic dimensions of state power. It redefines how we understand state power, inequality, and governance in Africa and beyond.' APCG 2023 Best Book Award citation 'Too often, scholars of the Global South view phenomena through the lens of theory and experience from the Global North. This has led our discipline to see thin states in the Global South as weak relative to the heftier states of the Global North. But with his book, Noah Nathan introduces an important corrective that views states of the Global South for what they are: often the strongest and most capacious actor relative to others in society.' Jessica Gottlieb, The Journal of Development Studies

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This book presents a new theory about the power of ostensibly weak states in hinterland regions of the developing world.
Part I. Introduction:
1. The politics of state scarcity;
2. The large effects of scarce states;
3. Northern Ghana's scarce state; Part II. Societal Effects:
4. The origins of inequality;
5. Bottom-Up responses to scarcity; Part III. Political Effects:
6. Dynasties;
7. Invented chiefs and distributive politics;
8. Non-State violence as a state effect; Part IV. Extending the Argument:
9. Shadow cases;
10. The paradox of state weakness; Appendix: Qualitative interviews; Bibliography; Index.
Noah L. Nathan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana (2019).
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