APPLYING COMPETENCIES – State Capability Enhancement Project (SCEP)
Sampath Kumar, Aroon P. Manoharan, and Jayasharadha Chandrakalatharan delve into the nuances of building state capability through the State Capability Enhancement Project (SCEP), addressing systemic barriers like hierarchical rigidity and bureaucratic inertia. They propose a comprehensive framework with five verticals—Adaptive Leadership Building (ALB), Granular Performance Monitoring (GPM), Restructuring for Responsiveness (RFR), AI-enabled Decision-Making (AIEDM), and […]
Dimensions of State Government Capability
This article ventures into the conceptually murky literature on governmental capability and constructs a definition that is put to an empirical test at the state level. Factor analysis produces four dimensions of capability: Staffing and Spending, Accountability and Information Management, Executive Centralization, and Representation. States exhibit varying scores across these factors suggesting that earlier measures […]