Foreign aid and subnational variation in state capacity: Evidence from Colombia
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ISTP Colloquium with Dr. S. Ziaja from the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn.
The Las Lajas Sanctuary in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño (CC BY-SA 4.0 / D. Delso via Wikimedia Commons)
About Dr. Sebastian Ziaja
Sebastian Ziaja is Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn. Before moving to Bonn, he was interim professor for political science at the University of Konstanz and post-doctoral researcher at Heidelberg University. In 2014, he obtained his PhD at the Government Department at the University of Essex. His research centers around political regimes and state capacity. In substance, he investigates international determinants of these issues, with a special focus on foreign aid. His methodological emphasis is on measuring regime change and subnational variation in state capacity.