Developmentalism the normative and transformative within capitalism / Graham Harrison.
| Author/creator | Harrison, Graham, 1968- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Description | 282 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Abstract | "Why do so few countries achieve development success? Achieving development requires many changes over a short period of time, generating instability and risk. It is a deep and integrated economy of change involving force, strategic thinking, and ideological conviction - it emerges when successful development is seen as necessary for the survival of a political order. 'Developmentalism' engages with the moral issues that this raises. 'Developmentalism: The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism' uses a historical comparative approach to understand development as a transformation which involves a deep and integrated political economy of change - a shift from a state of 'capital-ascendance' to 'capital dominance'. It is only through a transformation towards capital dominance that mass poverty reduction and the construction of a commonwealth are possible. However, capitalist development is extremely difficult and requires a highly exacting political endeavor. The politics of development is conceptualized as developmentalism: a strategy and ideology in which governments exercise heavy directive power, endure instability and crisis, and secure a rudimentary legitimacy for their efforts. This book argues that developmentalism requires a conflation of successful capitalist transformation with some form of existential insecurity of the state itself. It flourishes when capitalist transformation connects to profound questions of sovereignty, statehood, nation-building, and elite survival. 'Developmentalism' shows deep contextualisation of capitalist transformation as well as the massive improvements in material life that it has generated" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019955332 |
| ISBN | 9780198785798 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0198785798 (hardcover) |
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