Syria and Lebanon: Diverging paths of state unsustainability. MEDPRO Technical Report No. 6/June 2011

Any analysis of the prospects for stability and sustainability in the states of Syria and Lebanon reveals the strong ties that exist between these two countries and the impact of external influences on their overall development. Their trajectories, while starkly divergent in terms of the challenges confronting them at present, converge on a path of long-term unsustainability. Lebanon is in the midst of yet another transition phase, triggered by the collapse of Hariri’s government in January 2011. The current situation might be described as one of deteriorating status quo; the state is performing poorly in terms of its delivery of fundamental public services and its institutional legitimacy is tenuous in the face of emerging para-state structures and latent (occasionally active) violence. In Syria, challenges to the sustainability of the state have evolved dramatically since the beginning of 2011, and are now nearing a tipping point. In view of the mounting unrest and violence in the country, the future prospects for its economic and political development are dim. More ominously, the risk of widespread conflict, with sectarian overtones, cannot be discounted.

Social Investment and State Capacity. CEPS Working Document No. 419/February 2016

This paper looks at the difference between the levels and nature of social policy expenditure in northern and northwest European countries and the countries of southern, central, and eastern Europe, and examines the relationship between social investment and state capacity in these country groupings. The authors show that southern and eastern countries have a much greater preference for ‘compensating’ rather than ‘capacitating’ social policy spending. Furthermore, the state capacity in these countries is lower, which generates less state revenue. Based on these observations they conclude that low state capacity and low state revenue go hand in hand with the preference for capacitating social policies, as these policies involve less delegation and discretion than social investment policies. This paper shows that high state capacity is probably a necessary precondition for effective social investment policies, although some limited alternative paths do exist.

The university and the state. An address before the University of Tennessee, June 14, 1898.

Mode of access: Internet.

Church and state : a historical handbook /

Includes index.

Annual report of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan and ... annual report of the Agricultural College Experiment Station from ..

Printer varies.

Register and manual - State of Connecticut.

Title varies slightly.

State taxation of mineral deposits and production /

Mode of access: Internet.

Church and state in Massachusetts, 1691-1740 /

Microfiche originally published in the series: Library of American civilization ; LAC 11732.

Roster of the men and women who served in the army or naval service (including the Marine corps) of the United States or its allies from the state of North Dakota in the World war, 1917-1918...

Prepared and published under the direction of Brigadier General C. Angus Fraser, the adjutant general of North Dakota. By authority of Legislative Assembly of North Dakota.

Characteristics of state plans for aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act, Title IV-A, and for Guam, Puerto Rico, & Virgin Islands.

Description based on: 1981 ed.

Annual report of the State Engineer & Surveyor of the state of New York and of the tabulations and deductions from the reports of the railroad corporations for the year ending.

Title varies slightly.

An index and list of the pamphlets and periodicals collected by Rutherford Birchard Hayes, nineteenth President of the United States. The Hayes Memorial Library, Spiegel Grove State Park, Fremont, Ohio.

Mode of access: Internet.

Church and state in New England

Pages also numbered 94-188.

Projections and comparisons of alternative formulas for providing state aid to public library systems /

WI docs. no.: Leg.3:D/1978/9.

Biennial report of the Board of Charities and Corrections, State of South Dakota.

Description based on: 23rd (June 30, 1934).