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In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."
Part I. Introduction: 1. The state-in-society approach: a new definition of the state and transcending the narrowly constructed world of Rigor Part II. Rethinking Social and Political Change: 2. A model of state-society relations 3. Strong states, weak states: power and accommodation Part III. A Process-Oriented Approach - Constituting States and Societies: 4. The state in society: an approach to struggles for domination 5. Why do so many states stay intact Part IV. Linking Micro- and Macro-Level Change: 6. Individual change in the midst of social and political change Part V. Studying the State: 7. Studying the politics of development and change: the state of the art 8. Studying the state.
Jocelyn Sage Mitchell Northwestern University in Qatar jocelyn.mitchell@northwestern
- James C Scott
Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition
Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
Northwestern University in Qatar
jocelyn.mitchell@northwestern.edu
# 2014, Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2013.876994