States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance

276 Pages·2005·1.162 MB·English

by  Matthew Lange, Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.)

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States and Development:Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance
Edited by Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer
States and Development
Historical Antecedents of
Stagnation and Advance
Edited by
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer
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States and development :historical antecedents of stagnation and
advance / edited by Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revisions of papers presented at a one-day conference held in
Oct.2003 at the Watson Institute of International Studies,
Brown University.
1.State,The—Congresses.2.Nationalism—Congresses.3.Economic
development—Congresses.4.Political development—Congresses.
5.Comparative government—Congresses.I.Lange,Matthew.
II.Rueschemeyer,Dietrich.III.Series.
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C O N T E N T S
List of Tables and Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xii
PART I States and Development:An Introduction 1
One States and Development 3
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Two Harnessing the State:Rebalancing
Strategies for Monitoring and Motivation 26
Peter Evans
Three The Rule of Law and Development:A
Weberian Framework of States and
State-Society Relations 48
Matthew Lange
PART II Long-Lasting Effects of States
on Development 67
Four State Effectiveness,Economic Growth,
and the Age of States 69
Areendam Chanda and Louis Putterman
Five Colonial States and Economic Development
in Spanish America 92
James Mahoney and Matthias vom Hau
vi Contents
Six British Colonial State Legacies and
Development Trajectories:A Statistical
Analysis of Direct and Indirect Rule 117
Matthew Lange
PART III Building States—Inherently a
Long-Term Process? 141
Seven Building States—Inherently a Long-Term
Process? An Argument from Theory 143
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Eight Building States—Inherently a Long-Term
Process? An Argument from Comparative History 165
Thomas Ertman
Nine How Fast Can You Build A State? State
Building in Revolutions 183
Jaime Becker and Jack A.Goldstone
Ten State Building in Korea:Continuity
and Crisis 211
Bruce Cumings
PART IV Conclusion 237
Eleven States and Development:What Insights
Did We Gain? 239
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Index 259
L I S T O F T A B L E S A N D F I G U R E S
Tables
3.1 Four coordination structure ideal types 50
4.1 Regional averages of statehistn05 and
statehist1500 (weighted by 1960 population) 76
4.2 Income levels and growth:correlations with
statehistn05 and statehist1500 76
4.3 Political,institutional,demographic and
geographical variables:correlations with
statehistn05 and statehist1500 78
4.4 Regressions with per capita GDP growth rate
(1960–1995) as dependent variable 80
4.5 Regressions with per capita GDP growth rate
(1960–1995) as dependent variable,developing
country sample only 83
4.6 Regressions using log of per capita GDP (1995) as
dependent variable 85
4.7 Regressions using institutional quality (1982–1995)
as dependent variable 87
A Additional correlations 89
6.1 Former British colonies used in analysis:dates
and duration of colonialism 123
6.2 Bivariate correlation between the extent of indirect
rule and various postcolonial development indicators 127
6.3 Multivariate analysis of state governance among
former British colonies,1997–1998 129
6.4 Multivariate analysis of democracy among
former British colonies 130
viii List of Tables and Figures
6.5 (a) Multivariate analysis of per capita GDP in 1960 (log)
(b) Multivariate analysis of average annual per capita
GDP growth,1961–2000 132
6.6 (a) Multivariate analysis of life expectancy,1960
(b) Multivariate analysis of change in life
expectancy,1960–1990 134
7.1 Summary of factors slowing state development 154
9.1 Time-spans from state collapse to revolutionary
consolidation 185
9.2 Major social revolutions’time-span to consolidation 190
Figures
2.1 The tripod model of state control 30
2.2 Total percent change in unexplained growth in
per capita GDP (1970–1990) by
“Weberianness”scale score 33
2.3 Virtuous circle of intangible compensation 35
2.4 Quality of government institutions (ICRG)
by relative income conversion efficiency (RICE) 40
3.1 Three types of structural synergy 60
N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S
Jaime Becker is a graduate student at the University of California at
Davis. Her research is on social movements and revolutions. Current
research is focused on transnational flows of anarchist ideology,activists,
and organizing frameworks in the Mexican Revolution.
Areendam Chanda is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at
Louisiana State University. His research focuses on a variety of issues
related to economic growth and development.
Bruce Cumings is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History
at the University of Chicago. His publications include Parallax Visions:
American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century (Durham, NC,
London:Duke University Press,1999);Korea’s Place in the Sun:A Modern
History(New York,London:Norton,1997);The Origins of the Korean War
(2 vols., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990). He is
currently completing a book entitled Industrial Behemoth:The Northeast
Asian Political Economy in the 20th Century.
Thomas Ertman is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York
University.He is the author of Birth of the Leviathan:Building States and
Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe(Cambridge,UK,New York:
Cambridge University Press,1997),winner of the Barrington Moore Jr.
Prize. He is completing a successor volume on liberalization and
democratization in Europe from the French Revolution until World War II
tentatively entitled “Taming the Leviathan.”
Peter Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California,
Berkeley and holds the Eliaser Chair of International Studies. His
publications include Livable Cities? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and