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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- The Scarce State
- EAN
- 9781009261128
- ISBN
- 9781009261128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication Name
- The Scarce State
- Title
- The Scarce State
- Subtitle
- Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Weight
- 549g
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Item Height
- 228mm
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Release Date
- 02/03/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Item Width
- 23mm
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009261126
ISBN-13
9781009261128
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4058363243
Product Key Features
Book Title
Scarce State : Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland
Number of Pages
310 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
General, American Government / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-027068
Reviews
'In this theoretically original and empirically rich book, Noah Nathan reveals the outsized impact of rare state interventions on social, economic, and political relations in the hinterlands. Transforming the rhetoric and refocusing the analysis on the scarcity of the state transforms our understanding of governance and government throughout the world.' Margaret Levi, Stanford University, 'Using the case of Ghana to study state-society relations in the hinterland, Prof. Noah Nathan's excellent new book forces his readers to rethink common claims about the state. In particular, Prof. Nathan provides a fresh and compelling theory of when, how and why even a 'weak' state can have everlasting effects on core development outcomes such as inequality, elite capture, electoral competition, clientelism and political violence. This book should be a must read for anyone interested in developing countries' political and economic trajectories.' Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
320.91724
Table Of Content
Part I. Introduction: 1. The politics of state scarcity; 2. The large effects of scarce states; 3. Northern Ghana's scarce state; Part II. Societal Effects: 4. The origins of inequality; 5. Bottom-Up responses to scarcity; Part III. Political Effects: 6. Dynasties; 7. Invented chiefs and distributive politics; 8. Non-State violence as a state effect; Part IV. Extending the Argument: 9. Shadow cases; 10. The paradox of state weakness; Appendix: Qualitative interviews; Bibliography; Index.
Synopsis
This book explores the politics of hinterlands in the developing world, showing that even in peripheral regions where the state appears weakest, it has significant power to transform society. The book challenges classic theories of state-building and provides lessons for policymakers promoting development in some of the world's poorest regions., States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce can have outsize, long-lasting effects on society. The Scarce State reframes our understanding of the political economy of hinterlands through a multi-method study of Northern Ghana alongside shadow cases from other world regions. Drawing on a historical natural experiment, the book shows how the contemporary economic and political elite emerged in Ghana's hinterland, linking interventions by an ostensibly weak state to new socio-economic inequality and grassroots efforts to reimagine traditional institutions. The book demonstrates how these state-generated societal changes reshaped access to political power, producing dynastic politics, clientelism, and violence. The Scarce State challenges common claims about state-building and state weakness, provides new evidence on the historical origins of inequality, and reconsiders the mechanisms linking historical institutions to contemporary politics.
LC Classification Number
JF60.N38 2023
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