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States and Economic Development

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Economic development was a primary interest of the founding figures of political sociology and remains an important focus of political sociologists today. Although this literature investigates diverse aspects of the interrelationships between politics and the economy, numerous analyses explore the role of the state in promoting economic growth and industrialization. Indeed, scholars of economic development played an important role in “bringing the state back in” to political sociology during the 1980s, and the subfield has continued to grow over the past quarter century.

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  1. Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Matthew Lange

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  1. Department of Sociology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Kevin T. Leicht

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    J. Craig Jenkins

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Lange, M. (2010). States and Economic Development. In: Leicht, K.T., Jenkins, J.C. (eds) Handbook of Politics. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68930-2_15

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