State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery

by Atul Kohli

• ISBN13: 9780521545259
• ISBN10: 0521545250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
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	27	(35)
2 The Rhee Interregnum: Saving South Korea for Cohesive Capitalism	62	(22)
3 A Cohesive-Capitalist State Reimposed: Park Chung Hee and Rapid Industrialization	84	(43)
PART II TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: BRAZIL
4 Invited Dependency: Fragmented State and Foreign Resources in Brazil's Early Industrialization	127	(42)
5 Grow Now, Pay Later: State and Indebted Industrialization in Modern Brazil	169	(52)
PART III SLOW BUT STEADY: INDIA
6 Origins of a Fragmented-Multiclass State and a Sluggish Economy: Colonial India	221	(36)
7 India's Fragmented-Multiclass State and Protected Industrialization	257	(34)
PART IV DASHED EXPECTATIONS: NIGERIA
8 Colonial Nigeria: Origins of a Neopatrimonial State and a Commodity-Exporting Economy	291	(38)
9 Sovereign Nigeria: Neopatrimonialism and Failure of Industrialization	329	(38)
Conclusion: Understanding States and State Intervention in the Global Periphery	367	(60)
Select Bibliography	427	(20)
Index	447