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Strong Societies and Weak States - State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World (Paperback)
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Strong Societies and Weak States - State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World (Paperback)
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Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such
difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite
of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of
other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws
and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these
questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in
the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers a fresh
approach to the study of state-society relations and to the
possibilities for economic and political reforms in the third
world. In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, state institutions have
established a permanent presence among the populations of even the
most remote villages. A close look at the performance of these
agencies, however, reveals that often they operate on principles
radically different from those conceived by their founders and
creators in the capital city. Migdal proposes an answer to this
paradox: a model of state-society relations that highlights the
state's struggle with other social organizations and a theory that
explains the differing abilities of states to predominate in those
struggles.
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