ABSTRACT
Changing state-society relations and their impact on national economic performance are a perennial concern of scholars of development studies. While scholars have approached this subject from diverse theoretical perspectives, they have all sought to explain cross-national variations in industrialization trajectories by focusing on the interplay of states, markets, and societies in the making and implementation of development strategies. Common to extant studies of developing and emerging market countries is the fundamental assumption that development policies and processes are an important function of the complex interactions of economic, political, and social forces operating at domestic and systemic levels of analysis. In this regard, many scholars have attempted to advance explanatory frameworks that address the role of the state in economic development and examine how key societal actors are integrated into state institutions and how the changing configurations of state-society relations are crucial to industrial transformation within the contexts of national and international political economies.
