Lina Skoglund is a fifth year PhD candidate in comparative politics at Princeton. Her dissertation examines state-building, with a particular focus on local and regional resistance to political centralization. She uses quasi-natural experiments to identify the local determinants of variations in active and passive resistance to the state. Lina's work explores the roots of resistance to state authority by emphasizing how local factors influence perceptions of the legitimacy of the central state, impact the ability to escape repression, and shape the capacity of actors to coordinate against the state.