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The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to governments in Latin
America and Africa. Deep economic crises and significantly
heightened pressure for political reform severely taxed their
capacity to manage economic and political tasks. These crises
pointed to an intense need to reform the state and redefine its
relationship to the market and civic society. This book examines
the paradox of states that have been weakened by crisis just as
their capacity to encourage economic development and provide for
effective governance most needs to be strengthened. Case studies of
Mexico and Kenya allow the author to analyse the opportunities
available for political leadership in moments of crisis, and the
constraints on action provided by leadership goals and existing
political and economic structures. She argues that while leaders
and political structures are often part of the problem, they can
also be part of the solution in building more efficient, effective,
and responsive states.
The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to governments in Latin
America and Africa. Deep economic crises and significantly
heightened pressure for political reform severely taxed their
capacity to manage economic and political tasks. These crises
pointed to an intense need to reform the state and redefine its
relationship to the market and civic society. This book examines
the paradox of states that have been weakened by crisis just as
their capacity to encourage economic development and provide for
effective governance most needs to be strengthened. Case studies of
Mexico and Kenya allow the author to analyse the opportunities
available for political leadership in moments of crisis, and the
constraints on action provided by leadership goals and existing
political and economic structures. She argues that while leaders
and political structures are often part of the problem, they can
also be part of the solution in building more efficient, effective,
and responsive states.
This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality,
country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a
variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of
'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it
must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the
previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer
their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states,
which should be disaggregated for meaningful comparative study, are
best analysed as parts of societies. States may help mould, but are
also continually moulded by, the societies within which they are
embedded. States' capacities, further, will vary depending on their
ties to other social forces. And other social forces will be
capable of being mobilised into political contention only under
certain conditions. Political contention pitting states against
other social forces may sometimes be mutually enfeebling, but at
other times, mutually empowering.
This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality,
country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a
variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of
'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it
must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the
previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer
their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states,
which should be disaggregated for meaningful comparative study, are
best analysed as parts of societies. States may help mould, but are
also continually moulded by, the societies within which they are
embedded. States' capacities, further, will vary depending on their
ties to other social forces. And other social forces will be
capable of being mobilised into political contention only under
certain conditions. Political contention pitting states against
other social forces may sometimes be mutually enfeebling, but at
other times, mutually empowering.
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