State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development Edited by Peter Evans 1997, ISBN: 0-87725-185-1 SUGGESTED CITATION: Peter Evans, ed. State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development . University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Research Series #94, 1997. http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/research/94 This work has been peer reviewed.

Recent movement toward more comprehensive institutional perspectives on development has been stimulated by two distinct challenges to narrow development theories. Theorists of "social capital" have highlighted the degree to which norms of trust and the interpersonal networks on which they are based constitute economic assets. Revisionist theories of the "East Asian Miracle" have emphasized the central role of public institutions in capitalist development. The introduction and the articles that follow attempt to bring these two disparate traditions together by examining the potentially positive role of relations which join state and civil society in shared developmental projects. The five studies presented in this volume draw on the experience of a range of countries, including Russia, China, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, and India. In combination, they provide a powerful case for the proposition that active governments and mobilized communities can enhance each other's developmental efforts and generate "state-society synergy.

Contents

Front Matter and Acknowledgments, Peter Evans (p. i-vii)

Introduction: Development Strategies Across the Public-Private Divide, Peter Evans (p. 1-10)

Institutional Design of Public Agencies and Coproduction: A Study of Irrigation Associations in Taiwan, Wai Fung Lam (p. 11-47)

Social Capital as a Product of Class Mobilization and State Intervention: Industrial Workers in Kerala, India, Patrick Heller (p. 48-84)

Crossing the Great Divide: Coproduction, Synergy, and Development, Elinor Ostrom (p. 85-118)

How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural Mexico, Jonathan Fox (p. 119-149)

The State and Economic Involution: Russia Through a China Lens, Michael Burawoy (p. 150-177)

Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy, Peter Evans (p. 178-209)

Notes on Contributors, Peter Evans (p. 211)