Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict: Development and State-Building in the Shadow of Wartime Institutional Change (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence.It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book explores the emergence of wartime governance and its enduring effects on post-conflict state-building, development, and institutional change.Drawing on rich empirical research and original case studies from conflict-affected countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, it brings together leading scholars in political science, development studies, and economics to examine how non-state and hybrid actors govern during war, and how these forms of governance interact with, challenge, or complement state authority in the long term.Rather than portraying war solely as a period of state collapse and institutional erosion, this volume reveals the emergence of complex systems of rule that provide public goods, administer justice, and collect revenues.These wartime institutions often re