Locked In Place (ebook)

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"[A]n important contribution to the larger theoretical debate about the role of the state in development and the place of class analysis. A British anthropologist friend remarked after reading it, 'How did he get a job in an American sociology department? Where is the post-modernism? Where are the regressions?' Instead we have a sustained analytical argument presented in writing that is crystal-clear and entirely free of jargon, with historical narrative of 'what was' tautly balanced with counterfactual 'what might have been.' The book assaults idle prejudice on every side of the debate about markets and the role of government. It is long overdue, and deserves to be widely read."--Robert Hunter Wade, European Journal of Sociology

"Vivek Chibber's book is exceptionally clear, fresh, empirically rich, and analytically tight. It clears some conventional cobwebs in thinking about developmental states. It should be read widely."--Ronald J. Herring, Perspectives on Politics

"Chibber of course has much to contribute to the state-society debate, Indian historiography, and methodology germane to industrial change. His work provokes many questions and alternative counterfactuals for future research."--Anthony P. D'Costa, Journal of Asian Studies

Honorable Mention for the 2006 Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2005 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award, Eastern Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004

"An excellent book on political economy that will interest scholars of economics, political science, and sociology and others concerned with economic development and the state structures that aid or hinder it. . . . Chibber has laid out an analysis of the political economy of development that cannot be ignored, and may offer important lessons for developing nations--and for those who would advise them--in the Middle East, Africa, and South America."--Choice

"Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place is a brilliant, benchmark study of the developmental state and its dilemmas. Over the past two decades there has been a steady move away from systematic class analysis of state strategies toward state-centric approaches. Chibber decisively "brings class back in" in a nuanced and penetrating investigation of how class strategies constrain and intersect the institutional logics of developmental states."--Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin, author of Class Counts and Class, Crisis and the State

"A truly outstanding book. Chibber presents a novel, powerful, and controversial central thesis that will be of great interest to scholars in the field. He beautifully elaborates the expected consequences of this thesis for comparative historical cases, and presents two critically important, contrasting cases to great effect, with lucidity and élan. The empirical matter is substantial, but is always presented economically and with modesty. The text is extremely well written. The provocative conclusions will, as they should, unquestionably stimulate a raft of further questions and new research."--Robert Brenner

"This book is an excellent piece of scholarship and an important contribution both to the ongoing comparative debate on the role of the state in development and to our understanding of India as a significant and weighty case within that debate. Marked by careful, detailed historical research and unrelenting engagement with general analytical issues, it will be an invaluable resource for future scholars trying to understand the emergence of the post-colonial state in India."--Peter Evans, author of Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation

"[A] powerful assault on the intellectual assumptions, arguments and claims on which the prevailing neoliberal consensus in India rests. . . . [I]t will likely force much more serious historical research into the whole issue of the relationship of state and class in this period. [W]e have every reason to be grateful for this path-breaking work."--Achin Vanaik, New Left Review

"This book should become a cornerstone in all future efforts to explain divergent paths of development, and it will serve as a model for how to understand state policymaking and implementation in all types of economies."--Richard Lachmann, Social Forces0Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
List of Abbreviations xix
PART I: The Issues and the Argument 1
CHAPTER 1
Introduction 3
CHAPTER 2
Late Development and State-Building 13
The Two Dimensions of Industrial Policy 14
Industrial Policy and State Capacity 17
State Capacity as Dilemma 23
Installing the Developmental State: Four Theses 29
Locked in Place: The Reproduction of the State 44
PART II: Installing the State 49
CHAPTER 3
The Origins of the Developmental State in Korea 51
Introduction 51
The Two Varieties of Statism 53
The Continuity Thesis 55
The Discontinuity Thesis 57
A Critique of the Statist Discontinuity Thesis 62
The Origins of the Developmental State 66
A Look Ahead 82
CHAPTER 4
Precursors to Planning in India: The Myth of the Developmental Bourgeoisie 85
Introduction 85
The Backdrop to the Bombay Plan 88
The Bombay Plan 94
The Capitalist Class and the Demise of the Bombay Plan 98
The Roots of Business Opposition 107
CHAPTER 5
The Demobilization of the Labor Movement 110
Introduction 110
Congress and the Popular Classes 112
The Postwar Labor Upsurge 116
A "Responsible" Labor Movement 118
The Significance of Demobilization 125
CHAPTER 6
The Business Offensive and the Retreat of the State 127
Introduction 127
The Commitment to Import-Substitution 129
Jettisoning Nationalization 132
Disciplinary Planning and the Business Offensive 137
The Institutional Outcome (1):
The Planning Commission 146
The Institutional Outcome (2):
The Filters on Discipline 152
PART III: Reproducing the State 159
CHAPTER 7
State Structure and Industrial Policy 161
Introduction 161
State Structure and Industrial Policy in Korea 164
State Structure and Industrial Policy in India 170
The Rationality of Non-Disciplinary Industrial Policy 183
CHAPTER 8
Locked in Place: Explaining the Non-Occurrence of Reform 193
Introduction 193
Existing Explanations for the Absence of Reform 194
The Crisis of 1957 and the Search for Solutions 196
The Attempt at Export Promotion 199
Agenda-Setting and the Declining Legitimacy of the Planning Process 206
The Reform Episode of the Mid-Sixties 212
CHAPTER 9
Conclusion 222
Bringing Capital "Back In" 222
Capital and the Developmental State 226
The Routes to and Obstacles against ELI 233
Of Possibilities and Roads Not Taken 239
EPILOGUE
The Decline of Development Models 244
Korea: The Revolt against the Developmental State 245
India: The Gradual Implosion of ISI 248
Notes 255
Bibliography 309
Index 327