Interactions between various players and the different levels of state
machinery have multiplied in number, diversifi ed 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.
