State/Culture State-Formation after the Cultural Turn

Name: State/Culture State-Formation after the Cultural Turn
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ISBN: 9780801485336

ISBN-10: 0801485339

ISBN-13: 9780801485336

Edition: 1999

Authors: George Steinmetz

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What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the radiant core of a universal, context-free rationality? This eagerly awaited volume brings together pioneering scholars who reexamine the sociology of the state and historical processes of state-formation in light of developments in cultural analysis. The volume first examines some of the unsatisfying ways in which cultural processes have been discussed in social science literature on the state. It demonstrates new and sophisticated approaches to…

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List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/4/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Contributors


Preface


Introduction Culture and the State


Epilogue


References



State/Culture: Theoretical Approaches



Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field


References



Society, Economy, and the State Effect



Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State-Formation



The Changing Cultural Content of the Nation-State: a World Society Perspective



Culture and Early Modern State-Formation



Calvinism and State-Formation in Early Modern Europe


References



Nationalism, Universal Monarchy, and the Glorious Revolution



Culture and the Modernization/ Westernization of Non-European States



The Subvention of Tradition: a Genealogy of the Nigerian Durbar


References



Revolution and State Culture: The Circle of Justice and Constitutionalism in 1906 Iran



Culture and the Modern Western State



The Cultural Elements of Ethnically Mixed States: Nationality Re-Formation in the Soviet Successor States


References



Motherhood, Work, and Welfare in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia



Political Belonging: Emotion, Nation, and Identity in Fascist Italy



Narrating the Future of the National Economy and the National State: Remarks on Remapping Regulation and Reinventing Governance


Epilogue: Now Where?


Name Index


Subject Index