ABSTRACT
Interactions between various players and the different levels of state machinery have multiplied in number, diversified in nature, and changed in focus. This happened either during an early stage of the reforms or as a collateral effect of these, either because of the initial impetus provided by the state or on account of the proactive moves of other players, to which the state later had to adjust. Conversely, several interactions have developed between non-state agents, some of them having key economic implications. These new patterns have been largely described in Chapter 3. A further question is, whether from these patterns a new mode of governance, with a renewed role for the state, unfolds. Indeed, of these interactions between non-state agents, some have been ‘formalised’ by the state, hence legitimised. From these mechanisms of legitimisation transpire evolutions in the larger economic power equation. In this context, the chapter attempts to re-interpret some of the political and social evolutions of governance through a political-economy prism.
