id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt mw22v40951d Luis L. Schenoni Bringing War Back In: Victory and State Formation in Nineteenth Century Latin America 2020 .txt text/plain 202 7 42 In a second part, it develops a multi-method strategy to test this claim by combining qualitative comparative analyses of state capacity at the year 1900 with difference-in-differences analyses and the synthetic control method, two estimators that identify the effect of losing vis-à-vis winning a war on levels of state capacity in a panel of Latin America (1865-1913). Scholars have often dismissed the effect of war on state formation in regions like Latin America where mobilization for war is deemed insufficiently intense and international conflict fails to out-select weaker states. cache/mw22v40951d.txt txt/mw22v40951d.txt