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Discipline and Development

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  • Davis,Diane E.

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Perhaps the most commonly held assumption in the field of development is that middle classes are the bounty of economic modernization and growth. As countries gradually transcend their agrarian past and become urbanized and industrialized, so the logic goes, middle classes emerge and gain in number, complexity, cultural influence, social prominence, and political authority. Yet this is only half the story. Middle classes shape industrial and economic development, they are not merely its product; the particular ways in which middle classes shape themselves - and the ways historical conditions shape them - influence development trajectories in multiple ways. This is the story of South Korea's and Taiwan's economic successes and Argentina's and Mexico's relative 'failures' through an examination of their rural middle classes and disciplinary capacities. Can disciplining continue in a context where globalization squeezes middle classes and frees capitalists from the state and social contracts in which they have been embedded?

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  • Davis,Diane E., 2004. "Discipline and Development," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521807487, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521807487
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    1. Lukas Schlogl & Andy Sumner, 2014. "How Middle Class are the ‘Emerging Middle’ or ‘Scooter Class’ in Indonesia? A Household Asset Approach to Social Stratification," Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) 201407, Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, revised May 2014.
    2. Suzanne Naafs, 2013. "Youth, Gender, and the Workplace," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 646(1), pages 233-250, March.
    3. Reginaldo C. Moraes, 2012. "Reclaiming the Land, Reclaiming the Nation: Adjacent or Twin Questions?," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 1(1), pages 65-83, April.
    4. McDougal, Topher L., 2017. "The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict: Predation, Production, and Peripheries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198792598.
    5. Vidican Auktor, Georgeta & Regeni, Giulio, 2017. "The developmental state in the 21st century: calling for a new social contract," IDOS Discussion Papers 5/2017, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    6. J Miguel Kanai, 2010. "The Politics of Inequality in Globalizing Cities: How the Middle Classes Matter in the Governing of Buenos Aires," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 42(8), pages 1887-1901, August.

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