POLB91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: French Revolution, Social Capital
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Contrast china"s successful case of state led development with james scott"s analysis o failed cases of state led development. Scott gives examples of damns because they justify with electricity problem is that it damages. The presence of an authoritarian state scott argues that it is authoritarian state that can carry these massive engineering projects b/c we have the ruling parties that call the shots. A civil society that is weak is unable to mobilize any opposition to high modernist ideological projects. It is a civil society that is unable. Legibility: is a central problem of the state craft. State has to be able to see the state properly in order to govern it. Problem of state craft cos the state has to make it legible. Scott is not just making a point bout making something visible it is bout core state power and what makes state power possible and how it is exercised.
