%0 Journal Article
%T Discarding the Failed State Thesis:Neo-Weberian Institutionalism as an Alternative Approach to Policy Formulation
%A Hussein SOLOMON
%J Journal of Administrative Sciences
%D 2013
%I Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University
%X States are the only contemporary political organisations that enjoy aunique legal status under International Law ¨C sovereignty ¨C and do playa major role in the creation and modification of all other public internationalentities. States exist to provide a decentralised method of deliveringpolitical (public) goods to the citizens living within its designatedterritory, and states are assumed as ¡°failed¡± when they can no longerdeliver these goods, such as security. It is argued that the categorisationof states as either functioning or failing by donors and policymakers isreductive, non-contextualised and ahistorical, resulting in a monolithiccoat being thrown over disparate problems that require tailored solutions.Countering the limitations of the failed state thesis, this articledraws on neo-Weberian institutionalism, characterised by the state¡¯scapacity to provide political goods to its citizens based on its perceivablelegitimacy, to provide an alternative approach to policy formulationutilising Somalia since 1991 as a case study
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