| 1 | | States and development by Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer | | 3 |
| 2 | | Harnessing the state : rebalancing the strategies for monitoring and motivation by Peter Evans | | 26 |
| 3 | | The rule of law and development : a Weberian framework of states and state-society relations by Matthew Lange | | 48 |
| 4 | | State effectiveness, economic growth, and the age of states by Areendam Chanda and Louis Putterman | | 69 |
| 5 | | Colonial states and economic development in Spanish America by James Mahoney and Matthias vom Hau | | 92 |
| 6 | | British colonial state legacies and development trajectories : a statistical analysis of direct and indirect rule by Matthew Lange | | 117 |
| 7 | | Building states - inherently a long-term process? : an argument from theory by Dietrich Rueschemeyer | | 143 |
| 8 | | Building states - inherently a long-term process? : an argument from comparative history by Thomas Ertman | | 165 |
| 9 | | How fast can you build a state? : state building in revolutions by Jaime Becker and Jack A. Goldstone | | 183 |
| 10 | | State building in Korea : continuity and crisis by Bruce Cumings | | 211 |
| 11 | | States and development : what insights did we gain? by Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer | | 239 |