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Locked in Place State-Building and Late Industrialization in India

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ISBN-10: 0691126232

ISBN-13: 9780691126234

Edition: 2003 (Annotated)

Authors: Vivek Chibber

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In the later 20th century many states launched ambitious state-led development programmes to stimulate industrialization. Some, as in South Korea, proved a stunning success, but India's efforts met with disappointment. This text assesses the Indian experience and attempts to say what went wrong.
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Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.09" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Vivek Chibber is professor of sociology at New York University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
The Issues and the Argument
Introduction
Late Development and State-Building
The Two Dimensions of Industrial Policy
Industrial Policy and State Capacity
State Capacity as Dilemma
Installing the Developmental State: Four Theses
Locked in Place: The Reproduction of the State
Installing the State
The Origins of the Developmental State in Korea
Introduction
The Two Varieties of Statism
The Continuity Thesis
The Discontinuity Thesis
A Critique of the Statist Discontinuity Thesis
The Origins of the Developmental State
A Look Ahead
Precursors to Planning in India: The Myth of the Developmental Bourgeoisie
Introduction
The Backdrop to the Bombay Plan
The Bombay Plan
The Capitalist Class and the Demise of the Bombay Plan
The Roots of Business Opposition
The Demobilization of the Labor Movement
Introduction
Congress and the Popular Classes
The Postwar Labor Upsurge
A "Responsible" Labor Movement
The Significance of Demobilization
The Business Offensive and the Retreat of the State
Introduction
The Commitment to Import-Substitution
Jettisoning Nationalization
Disciplinary Planning and the Business Offensive
The Institutional Outcome (1): The Planning Commission
The Institutional Outcome (2): The Filters on Discipline
Reproducing the State
State Structure and Industrial Policy
Introduction
State Structure and Industrial Policy in Korea
State Structure and Industrial Policy in India
The Rationality of Non-Disciplinary Industrial Policy
Locked in Place: Explaining the Non-Occurrence of Reform
Introduction
Existing Explanations for the Absence of Reform
The Crisis of 1957 and the Search for Solutions
The Attempt at Export Promotion
Agenda-Setting and the Declining Legitimacy of the Planning Process
The Reform Episode of the Mid-Sixties
Conclusion
Bringing Capital "Back In"
Capital and the Developmental State
The Routes to and Obstacles against ELI
Of Possibilities and Roads Not Taken
Epilogue
The Decline of Development Models
Korea: The Revolt against the Developmental State
India: The Gradual Implosion of ISI
Notes
Bibliography
Index