Peter Evans offers a new interpretation of why state intervention in process of industrialization works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To answer this question. Evans develops a framework based on the ories of the state, bureaucratic politics, and development. This new approach demonstrates that successful state intervention requires an understanding of three critical issues of state structure and relationship(l) the way states are organized, (2) their relationship to the global econo. my, and 3, the nature of theirlinks to society that Evans calls"embedded autonomy." To support his contention, he presents an empirical analysis of restate effectiveness in predatory states like Zaire. developmental states like Korea and intermediary states Brazil India. Evans offers an insighful analysis that brings"the state back to our understanding the process of successful industrial transformation. A perennially popular Brazilian joke about two lions evokes one way of Seeing the state. Escapees from the zoo, the two lions take different paths. One goes to a wooded park and is apprehended as soon as he gets hungry and eats a passerby. The second remains at large for months. Finally tured, he returns to the zoo sleek and fat. His companion inquires with great interest, "Where did you find such a great hiding place?" "In one of the ministries is the successful escapee's answer. "Every three days l at bureaucrat and no one moticed. "So how did you get caught?" Hate the man who served coffee for the morning break," comes the sad reply. The moral is clear: bureaucrats do nothing and are never missed: even