Bringing the State Back In

Name: Bringing the State Back In
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ISBN: 9780521313131

ISBN-10: 0521313139

ISBN-13: 9780521313131

Edition: 1985

Authors: Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol

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Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political processes. The contributors to this volume, which includes some of the best recent interdisciplinary scholarship on states in relation to social structures, make use of theoretically engaged comparative and historical investigations to provide improved conceptualizations of states and how they operate. Each of the book's…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/13/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Dietrich Rueschemeyer is professor emeritus of sociology at Brown University and a research professor at Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies. He is the author of "Power and the Division of Labor" and the coeditor of "Bringing the State Back In", among many other books.

Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.



reface


ntroduction



Bringing the state back in: strategies of analysis in current research




States as Promoters of Economic Development and Social Redistribution



The state and economic transformation: toward an analysis of the conditions underlying effective intervention




The state and Taiwan's economic development




State structures and the possibilities for 'Keynesian' responses to the great depression in Sweden, Britain and the United States




States and Transnational Relations



War making and state making as organized crime




Transnational linkages and the economic role of the state: an analysis of developing and industrialized nations in the post-World War II period




Small nations in an open international economy: the converging balance of state and society in Switzerland and Austria




States and the Patterning of Social Conflicts



Working-class formation and the state: nineteenth-century England in American perspective




Hegemony and religious conflict: british imperial control and political cleavages in Yorubaland




State power and the strength of civil society in the southern cone of Latin America



Conclusion



On the road toward a more adequate understanding of the state



Index