Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India

@book{citeulike:800647, abstract = {{<p>Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, <i>Locked in Place</i> argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state.</p><p>Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country.</p><p>Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, <i>Locked in Place</i> is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.</p>}}, author = {Chibber, Vivek }, citeulike-article-id = {800647}, howpublished = {Hardcover}, isbn = {0691096597}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2006-08-14 11:29:50}, priority = {0}, publisher = {{Princeton University Press}}, title = {Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&amp;path=ASIN/0691096597}, year = {2003} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:800647 L3 - citeulike-article-id:800647 N2 - {<p>Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, <i>Locked in Place</i> argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state.</p><p>Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country.</p><p>Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, <i>Locked in Place</i> is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.</p>} SN - 0691096597 TI - Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India PB - {Princeton University Press} AU - Chibber, Vivek PY - 2003/10/13/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0691096597 ER -