Revision sheet for the State Strength module of Oxford University's Practice of Politics (political science) paper.
Received a First.

Revision sheet covers the following papers:

State formation in Europe: 
● Clark, Golder and Golder. “The Origins of the Modern State” Chapter 4. 
● Charles Tilly. 1990. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990 1990. Cambridge, Mass.: B. Blackwell. Chapters 1, 3, 5 and 6. 
● TuongVu.2010. “Studying the State through State Formation” World Politics. 62(01) 
● Hendryk Spruyt, 2002. “The Origins, Development, and Possible Decline of the Modern State.” Annual Review of Political Science 5:127-49 
● Kantola, J., 2006. Gender and the State: Theories and Debates. In Feminists Theorize the State (pp. 1-21). Palgrave Macmillan, London. 

State formation outside of Europe: 
● Scott, James. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
● Jeffrey Herbst. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton University Press. 
● Miguel A. Centeno. 1997. “Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth-century Latin America.” American Journal of Sociology, 102(6) 
● Victoria Hui, 2005. War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe. NewYork: Cambridge University Press. State capacity in contemporary times 
● Darren Acemoglu and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. Profile Books (or Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson). 
● Atul Kohli. 2006. State Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge University Press. 
● Robert Bates. 2008. “State Failure” Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 11 1-2. 
● Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy