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The State in Changing Circumstances: Insights from South Korea and Nigeria on Political Theory of Development

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The state is the institutional representation of a nation, in which is endowed all formal and informal power and the fate of the people, and through which society makes its greatest efforts for transformation. Consequently, the neoclassicists’ pessimism and predictions of the demise of the state in less-developed countries seems puzzling. Attempting an epochal understanding of the forms of state with a view to determining the appropriateness of the call to abolish the state, this paper, submits that all forms of state that forsake public interest are bound to experience vehement opposition and that whatever trial the state is undergoing is not new. It insists that rather than wish away the state because of poor performance, the operators of the state, whose corrupt and exploitative orientation determines the character of the prevailing state, should be the subject of critical analysis, with an aim towards reprofiling the Nigerian state to obtain a result that will most favorably replicate the outstanding developmental results recorded elsewhere.

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  • E.B.A. Agbaje, 2011. "The State in Changing Circumstances: Insights from South Korea and Nigeria on Political Theory of Development," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 1-32, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:16:y:2011:i:2:p:1-32
    DOI: 10.1080/12264431.2011.10805194
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