Jamie Hintson

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2021 - 2022 Academic Year

State Consolidation in the Shadow of Civil Conflict

Many low- and middle-income states maintain a very limited administrative presence in peripheral regions. Sometimes, however, governments rapidly integrate these previously neglected regions by constructing roads into remote areas, extending state services like education and healthcare, and regulating social behavior. This project examines the origins of state consolidation in peripheral regions, developing novel measures of state activity derived from satellite imagery. Contrary to research that views civil conflict as a source of state weakness, this work finds that civil conflict often triggers episodes of state consolidation, as governments seek to limit citizens' opportunities and incentives to resist the state.

Jamie Hintson, Department of Political Science

Jamie Hintson is a PhD candidate in political science at Stanford University. His research interests include the politics of state-building, international influences on domestic politics, and the strategic dynamics of civil conflict. His dissertation studies the wartime origins of contemporary state development, combining original measures of government presence with qualitative case studies. Hintson received his BA in politics from Princeton University in 2018. From 2018 to 2019 he served as a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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