Strong Societies and Weak States

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ISBN: 9780691010731 | 0691010730
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1988

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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.

Acknowledgments

Prologue

xiii

Part One States and Societies

Introduction to Part One

(7)

A Model of State-Society Relations

(42)

Generating High Expectations for States

(5)

The Drive Toward State Predominance

(9)

Modeling State-Society Relations

(9)

States and Weblike Societies

(6)

States and Strongmen Struggle for Social Control

(6)

Part Two Crisis and Reconsolidation: The Impact of Capitalism and Colonialism

Introduction to Part Two

(7)

The Weakening of Patterns of Social Control

(45)

Ties to the World Economy

(5)

Land Tenure Laws

(9)

Taxes

(7)

New Modes of Transportation

(7)

Social Change and Social Control

(9)

Crisis and Institutional Change

(4)

The Deterioration of Old Social Control

(4)

Laying the Basis for a Weak State: British Colonialism and the Fragmentation of Social Control in Sierra Leone

(45)

Who Benefited?

(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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Strong Societies and Weak States

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