State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/4/2004
EAN 9780521545259, ISBN10: 0521545250
Paperback, 478 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century. The states in these countries varied from cohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmented-multiclass (mainly in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly in Nigeria). It is argued that cohesive-capitalist states have been most effective at promoting industrialization and neo-patrimonial states the least. The performance of fragmented-multiclass states falls somewhere in the middle. After explaining in detail as to why this should be so, the study traces the origins of these different state types historically, emphasizing the role of different types of colonialisms in the process of state construction in the developing world.
Introduction
states and industrialization in the global periphery
Part I. Galloping Ahead
Korea
1. The colonial origins of a modern political economy
the Japanese lineage of Korea's cohesive-capitalist state
2. The rhee interregnum
saving South Korea for cohesive capitalism
3. A cohesive-capitalist state reimposed
Park Chung Hee and rapid industrialization
Part II. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Brazil
4. Invited dependency
fragmented state and foreign resources in Brazil's early industrialization
5. Grow now, pay later
state indebted industrialization in modern Brazil
Part III. Slow but Steady
India
6. Origins of a fragmented-multiclass state and a sluggish economy
colonial India
7. India's fragmented-multiclass state and protected industrialization
Part IV. Dashed Expectations
Nigeria
8. Colonial Nigeria
origins of a neopatrimonial state and a commodity-exporting economy
9. Sovereign Nigeria
neopatrimonialism and failure of industrialization
Conclusion
understanding states and state intervention in the global periphery.
'This manuscript is a tour de force of comparative, cross-regional, historically-based political economy analysis of one of the major issues that faced us in the last century and continues to do so now - why some states have done better than others at development. This type of work is very difficult to do, requiring broad contextual and technical knowledge, a keen sense of politics, and a deep knowledge of individual cases - all linked with excellent analytic capabilities. Professor Kohli has all of these and more.' Thomas Callaghy, University of Pennsylvania