States and Development Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance

by Lange, Matthew; Rueschemeyer, Dietrich

• ISBN13: 9781403964939
• ISBN10: 1403964939
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This important book explores the contribution states can make to overcoming collective action problems and create collective goods favorable to social, economic, and political development. It examines 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. And it offers empirical evidence showing that historical state structures have had lasting effects even on today's development. 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.

Author Biography

Matthew Lange is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University.

Dietrich Rueschemeyer is a research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies of Brown University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Preface	xii
PART I States and Development: An Introduction	1	(66)
One States and Development	3	(23)
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Two Harnessing the State: Rebalancing Strategies for Monitoring and Motivation	26	(22)
Peter Evans
Three The Rule of Law and Development: A Weberian Framework of States and State-Society Relations	48	(19)
Matthew Lange
PART II Long-Lasting Effects of States on Development	67	(74)
Four State Effectiveness, Economic Growth, and the Age of States	69	(23)
Areendam Chanda and Louis Putterman
Five Colonial States and Economic Development in Spanish America	92	(25)
James Mahoney and Matthias vom Hau
Six British Colonial State Legacies and Development Trajectories: A Statistical Analysis of Direct and Indirect Rule	117	(24)
Matthew Lange
PART III Building States-Inherently a Long-Term Process?	141	(96)
Seven Building States-Inherently a Long-Term Process? An Argument from Theory	143	(22)
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Eight Building States-Inherently a Long-Term Process? An Argument from Comparative History	165	(18)
Thomas Ertman
Nine How Fast Can You Build A State? State Building in Revolutions	183	(28)
Jaime Becker and Jack A. Goldstone
Ten State Building in Korea: Continuity and Crisis	211	(26)
Bruce Cumings
PART IV Conclusion	237	(22)
Eleven States and Development: What Insights Did We Gain?	239	(20)
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Index	259