(Survey about the Incompatible functions of state in developing countries, with emphasis on crisis in development theories)

One can contemplate some exact and distinct meanings for the concept of crisis according to the scientific debates, though the concept of crisis is generally being used too much in our everyday conversations. This paper would review the different perspectives toward the concept of crisis, then discusses about the sub­ject of state and the concept of crisis in connection with the state, while pointing to the state as one of the most important and effective foundations, with respect of welfare and development, in the modern society. Then the domination of crisis discourse would be referred, with an emphasis on the development theories posed in the decades after World War II. Also a classification of all kinds of possible rela­tionships among the state, civil society and development would be proposed. This classification distinguishes “perpetual developmentalism”, “perpetual equiva­lence” and “perpetual anti developmentalism”, and follow with attention to two factors : a) The direction of development process and b) how to do developmen­tal policies. This article is based on some studies on the crisis in the undeveloped countries, suggesting the thought of “unstable state” in these countries, trying to show theoretically an exit from this blocked situation. This Idea has closed rela­tion with basic question in this paper: In practical and theoretical sphere, what is the fundamental attribution of state in third world?