Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7fkt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T03:09:13.676Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2004

Ronald J. Herring
Affiliation:
Cornell University

Extract

Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 335p. $39.50 cloth.

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.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Copyright
© 2004 American Political Science Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)