LOCKED IN PLACE
STATE-BUILDING AND LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN INDIA
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Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while othewere not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, "Locked in Place" 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
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Book Details
- ISBN: 0691126232
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- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2003
- Number of Pages: 334
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- Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.52 g
