https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/nicola-mastrorocco/Nicola MastroroccoHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/state-capacity-as-an-organizational-problem/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/state-capacity-as-an-organizational-problem/<p>Mastrorocco and Teso study how the internal organization of a state evolves during national development, framing state capacity as an organizational — specifically a principal-agent — problem. Using a new micro-database covering the U.S. federal bureaucracy from 1817 to 1905, they ask: once rulers have incentives to build a state apparatus, how do they organize it to perform its functions across a vast territory, and what drives transitions between organizational forms?</p>