DEVELOPMENTALISM DSA C

Why do so few countries achieve development success? Achieving development requires many changes over a short period of time generating instability and risk. It is a deep and integrated economy of change involving force strategic thinking and ideological conviction - it emerges when successful development is seen as necessary for the survival of a political order. Developmentalism engages with the moral issues that this raises.Developmentalism: The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism uses a historical comparative approach to understand development as a transformation which involves a deep and integrated political economy of change - a shift from a state of ''capital-ascendance'' to ''capital dominance''. It is only through a transformation towards capital dominance that mass poverty reduction and the construction of a commonwealth are possible. However capitalist development is extremely difficult and requires a highly exacting political endeavour. The politics of development is conceptualized as developmentalism: a strategy and ideology in which governments exercise heavy directive power endure instability and crisis and secure a rudimentary legitimacy for their efforts. This book argues that developmentalism requires a conflation of successful capitalist transformation with some form of existential insecurity of the state itself. It flourishes when capitalist transformation connects to profound questions of sovereignty statehood nation-building and elite survival. Developmentalism shows deep contextualisation of capitalist transformation as well as the massive improvements in material life that it has generated.