State Building in the Developing World: Asia
January 20-22, 2011, New Delhi, India
Introductory Remarks
Pratap Mehta
Deborah Yashar
Session I: India, National Focus
Antoinette Handley, Chair; Pratap Mehta, Discussant
Maya Tudor: Social Classes, Political Parties, and the Origins of Regime Stability
Patrick Heller: Binding the State: State Capacity and Civil Society in India
Navroz Dubash: Understanding the Rise of the Regulatory State in the Global South
Session II: India, Regional Focus
Jeremy Seekings, Chair; Niraja Gopal Jayal, Discussant
John Harris: Is Government in India Becoming More Responsive? Has Democratic Decentralisation Made a Difference?
Kanta Murali: Economic Liberalization, Sub-national Politics and Private Investment in India
Prerna Singh: Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States
Session III: East Asia
Deborah Yasha, Chair; Atul Kohli, Discussant
Julia Strauss: Two Frames for Thinking about State Capacity: Bureaucratic Insitutions and Campaign Mobilizaiton
Yuen Yuen Ang: Dual fiscal Incentives: Explaining the Paradox of Developmental States and Predatory Bureaucracies in Local China
Chung-in Moon: From Developmental to Political State: Changing Faces of State Capacity and State Governance in South Korea
Session IV: Southeast Asia
Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida, Chair; Deborah Yashar, Discussant
Dan Slater: Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia
Erik Kuhonta: Structural Crises and Institutional Legacies: Explaining Patterns of State Formation in Southeast Asia
Tuong Vu: Structural Violence and State Building in East Asia
Closing Remarks
Niraja Gopal Jayal
Jeremy Seekings
Atul Kohli