States And Development
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Author |
: M. Lange |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2005-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1403964939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781403964939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis States and Development by : M. Lange
One of the most important issues in comparative politics is the relationship between the state and society and the implications of different relationships for long-term social and economic development. Exploring the contribution states can make to overcoming collective action problems and creating collective goods favourable to social, economic, and political development, the contributors to this significant volume examine how state-society relations as well as features of state structure shape the conditions under which states seek to advance development and the conditions that make success more or less likely. Particular focus is given to bureaucratic oversight, market functioning, and the assertion of democratic demands discipline state actions and contribute to state effectiveness. These propositions and the social mechanisms underlying them are examined in comparative historical and cross-national statistical analyses. The conclusion will also evaluate the results for current policy concerns.
Author |
: Stephan Haggard |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2018-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108605304 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108605303 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Developmental States by : Stephan Haggard
The concept of the developmental state emerged to explain the rapid growth of a number of countries in East Asia in the postwar period. Yet the developmental state literature also offered a theoretical approach to growth that was heterodox with respect to prevailing approaches in both economics and political science. Arguing for the distinctive features of developmental states, its proponents emphasized the role of government intervention and industrial policy as well as the significance of strong states and particular social coalitions. This literature blossomed into a wider approach, firmly planted in a much longer heterodox tradition, that explored comparisons with states that were decidedly not developmentalist, thus contributing to our historical understanding of long-run growth. This Element provides a critical but sympathetic overview of this literature and ends with its revival and a look forward at the possibility for developmentalist approaches, both in the advanced and developing world.
Author |
: Eric Werker |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198801641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198801645 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Deals and Development by : Eric Werker
When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This book provides a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations and applies it to nine countries across Africa and Asia, drawing actionable policy recommendations.
Author |
: Linda Weiss |
Publisher |
: Polity |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1995-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745614574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745614571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis States and Economic Development by : Linda Weiss
This book addresses the role of political institutions in economic performance, examining the changing state-economy relationships through a comparative history of political and economic development in Britain, USA, Russia, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.
Author |
: Stephan Haggard |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 508 |
Release |
: 2008-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691135967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691135960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by : Stephan Haggard
Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.
Author |
: Eva-Maria Muschik |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2022-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231553513 |
ISBN-13 |
: 023155351X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building States by : Eva-Maria Muschik
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the world were still under imperial control. Building States investigates how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s—and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik argues that the UN played a key role in the global proliferation and reinvention of the nation-state in the postwar era, as newly independent states came to rely on international assistance. Drawing on previously untapped primary sources, she traces how UN personnel—usually in close consultation with Western officials—sought to manage decolonization peacefully through international development assistance. Examining initiatives in Libya, Somaliland, Bolivia, the Congo, and New York, Muschik shows how the UN pioneered a new understanding and practice of state building, presented as a technical challenge for international experts rather than a political process. UN officials increasingly took on public-policy functions, despite the organization’s mandate not to interfere in the domestic affairs of its member states. These initiatives, Muschik suggests, had lasting effects on international development practice, peacekeeping, and post-conflict territorial administration. Casting new light on how international organizations became major players in the governance of developing countries, Building States has significant implications for the histories of decolonization, the Cold War, and international development.
Author |
: Meredith Woo-Cumings |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2019-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501720383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501720384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Developmental State by : Meredith Woo-Cumings
Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs. The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this informative and thought-provoking book, a team of distinguished scholars revisits this notion to assess its continuing utility and establish a common vocabulary for debates on these issues. Drawing on new political and economic theories and emphasizing recent events, the authors examine the East Asian experience to show how the developmental state involves a combination of political, bureaucratic, and moneyed influences that shape economic life in the region. Taking as its point of departure Chalmers Johnson's account of the Japanese developmental state, the book explores the interplay of forces that have determined the structure of opportunity in the region. The authors critically address the argument for centralized political involvement in industrial development (with a new contribution by Johnson), describe the historical impact of colonialism and the Cold War, consider new ideas in economics, and compare the experiences of East Asian countries with those of France, Brazil, Mexico, and India.
Author |
: Richard Lachmann |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2013-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745659015 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745659012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis States and Power by : Richard Lachmann
States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia. Richard Lachmann traces the contested and historically contingent struggles by which subjects began to see themselves as citizens of nations and came to associate their interests and identities with states, and explains why the civil rights and benefits they achieved, and the taxes and military service they in turn rendered to their nations, varied so much. Looking forward, Lachmann examines the future in store for states: will they gain or lose strength as they are buffeted by globalization, terrorism, economic crisis and environmental disaster? This stimulating book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the social science literature that addresses these issues and situates the state at the center of the world history of capitalism, nationalism and democracy. It will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social and political sciences.
Author |
: Matt Andrews |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198747482 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198747489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building State Capability by : Matt Andrews
Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.
Author |
: World Bank |
Publisher |
: World Bank Publications |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2016-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781464807749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1464807744 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Politics Work for Development by : World Bank
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.