TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Thomsson, Kaj A1 - de Crombrugghe, Denis T1 - Minding Weber more than ever? The impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on development goals JF - World Development N2 - State capacity has attracted renewed interest over the last years, notably in the study of violent conflict. Yet, this concept is conceived differently depending on where the interest lies. In this article, we focus on bureaucratic autonomy as a distinct concept and discuss its connection to state capacity in detail. Using panel data over 1990–2010 and a novel indicator of autonomy, we estimate the separate effect of state capacity and bureaucratic autonomy on child mortality and tuberculosis prevalence. The evidence suggests that bureaucratic autonomy has a stronger impact than commonly used measures of state capacity or traditional macroeconomic variables. KW - state capacity KW - bureaucratic autonomy KW - Millennium Development Goals KW - child mortality KW - tuberculosis Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.02.016 N1 - Other version: UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2013-052. VL - 72 SP - 191 EP - 207 ER -