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No consistent or quantitative definition of a "failed state" exists; the subjective nature of the indicators that are used to infer state failure have led to an ambiguous understanding of the term. [21] Some scholars focus on the capacity and effectiveness of the government to determine whether or not a state is failed. [22]
State collapse is a sudden dissolution of a sovereign state. [1] It is often used to describe extreme situations in which state institutions dissolve rapidly. [2] [1]When a new regime moves in, often led by the military, civil society typically fails to rally around the central government, and societal actors fend for themselves at the local level. [1]
Government failure. In the context of public economics, the term Government failure refers to an economic inefficiency caused by a government regulatory action, if the inefficiency would not have existed in a free market. [1] The costs of the government intervention are greater than the benefits provided.
Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of violence. [1] Possible causes of a societal collapse include natural catastrophe, war ...
State capacity. State capacity is the ability of a government to accomplish policy goals, either generally or in reference to specific aims. [1][2][3][4][5] More narrowly, state capacity often refers to the ability of a state to collect taxes, enforce law and order, and provide public goods. [6]
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
Constitutional crisis. In political science, a constitutional crisis is a problem or conflict in the function of a government that the political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve. There are several variations to this definition. For instance, one describes it as the crisis that arises out of ...
The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure. [2] [3] [4] In 376, a large migration of Goths and other non-Roman people, fleeing from the Huns, entered the Empire. Roman forces were unable to exterminate, expel or subjugate them (as was their ...