Strong Societies and Weak States

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Pub. Date: 1988-11-01
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary

This book offers a fresh approach to the study of state society relations and to the possibilities for economic and political reforms in the third world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xiii
Part One States and Societies
Introduction to Part One
3(7)
A Model of State-Society Relations
10(42)
Generating High Expectations for States
10(5)
The Drive Toward State Predominance
15(9)
Modeling State-Society Relations
24(9)
States and Weblike Societies
33(6)
States and Strongmen Struggle for Social Control
39(6)
Part Two Crisis and Reconsolidation: The Impact of Capitalism and Colonialism
Introduction to Part Two
45(7)
The Weakening of Patterns of Social Control
52(45)
Ties to the World Economy
52(5)
Land Tenure Laws
57(9)
Taxes
66(7)
New Modes of Transportation
73(7)
Social Change and Social Control
80(9)
Crisis and Institutional Change
89(4)
The Deterioration of Old Social Control
93(4)
Laying the Basis for a Weak State: British Colonialism and the Fragmentation of Social Control in Sierra Leone
97(45)
Who Benefited?
97(5)
Political Hegemony and the New Distribution of Social Control
102(5)
Recreating Social Control: Brits and Chiefs
107(9)
The Plural Interests of the British
116(8)
Why Colonial Officials Did Not Seek to Centralize Social Control
124(5)
The Impact of the New Social Structure on Postindependence Politics
129(6)
The State and the New Elite
135(4)
Colonialism, Social Fragmentation, and Weak States
139(3)
Laying the Basis for a Strong State: The British and Zionists in Palestine
142(39)
Variation in the Recreation of Social Control
142(1)
Background to Creation of Jewish Society in Palestine
143(3)
The British Propose a Jewish Agency
146(5)
The Struggle Among the Jews
151(12)
Jewish Autonomy and British Complicity
163(6)
Israel as a Strong State
169(3)
The Conditions for Creating a Strong State
172(5)
Part Three The Continuing Impact of an Environment of Conflict on State and Society
Introduction to Part Three
177(4)
The Egyptian State Attempts to Transform Egyptian Society
181(25)
The Image of Society Affecting the State
181(2)
Nasser and the Egyptian Land Reform
183(4)
Nasser's Two-Step Process for Building a Strong State
187(3)
The State's Agencies for Concentrating Social Control
190(2)
The Critical Role of the Rich and Middle Peasants
192(8)
Nasser Undermines His Own Agencies
200(3)
The Vicious Cycle of State Failure
203(3)
The Politics of Survival: Why Weak States Cannot Overcome Strong Societies and What Happens to Them as a Result
206(32)
State Leaders and State Agencies
206(1)
The Dilemma of State Leaders
207(7)
The Politics of Survival
214(12)
State Leaders and Power Centers in Society: The State and Capital
226(10)
State Leaders Reduced to Ruses and Stratagems
236(2)
The Triangle of Accommodation: Implementors, Politicians, and Strongmen
238(21)
Implementors
238(1)
Careerism, Risks, and Implementing Policies
239(6)
The Case of Conasupo
245(2)
Accommodation and Capturing the State at the Local Level
247(9)
The Effects of Society on State and State on Society
256(3)
Conclusion
259(30)
Dislocating Societies: Necessary Conditions for Creating Strong States
269(2)
Sufficient Conditions for Creating Strong States
271(8)
Appendixes
Appendix A Assessing Social Control
279(8)
Appendix B A Controversy over How Disruptive the Nineteenth Century Really Was
287(2)
Index 289

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