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States Against Nations: Meritocracy, Patronage, and The Challenges of Bureaucratic Selection. Cambridge University Press, Series in Comparative Politics. 2025.

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By focusing on the challenges of implementing civil service reform in ethnically stratified societies, this book develops a theory about the overlooked tensions that exist between state- and nation-building.

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Order: Cambridge, Amazon

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Review(s): Foreign Affairs

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