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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes on the Contributors | |
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| Introduction: Theories of the State | |
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| Defining the state | |
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| The concept of the state | |
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| Recent developments in state theory | |
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| Beyond the state? | |
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| Structure of the book | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Pluralism | |
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| The roots of pluralism | |
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| The rise of American pluralism | |
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| The reformulation of pluralism | |
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| Developments in British pluralism | |
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| Developments in contemporary pluralism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Elitism | |
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| Classical elitism | |
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| The classical elitists in perspective | |
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| Modern elitist perspectives - from radical elitism to the statists | |
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| The statists and the governing elite | |
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| The modern elitists in perspective | |
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| Contemporary elitist approaches | |
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| In summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| (What's Marxist about) Marxist State Theory? | |
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| Marxism and the state | |
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| A genealogy of the state in Marxist theory | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Public Choice | |
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| Public choice | |
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| Public choice, market failure and state failure | |
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| Forms of state failure | |
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| The critique of public choice | |
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| Public choice without prejudice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Institutionalism | |
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| From the 'old institutionalism' to the 'new institutionalism' | |
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| Rational choice institutionalism | |
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| Historical institutionalism | |
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| Sociological institutionalism | |
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| Discursive institutionalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Feminist contributors | |
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| Criticisms of feminist perspectives on the state | |
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| Current feminist debates | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Green Theory | |
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| Green critiques of the state | |
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| Disempowerment and democracy | |
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| A green anarchism? | |
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| Greening the state? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Poststructuralism | |
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| Locating poststructuralism | |
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| Laclau and Mouffe: the impossibility of the state | |
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| Destabilizing state sovereignty | |
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| Foucault, power and governmentality | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Globalization and the State | |
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| The globalization debate | |
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| Unpacking the relationship between economic processes, discourse(s) and policy outcomes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Transformation of the State | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Economic transformation: the effects of globalization | |
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| Political transformation: towards multi-level governance | |
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| The transformation of community | |
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| The transformation of sovereignty | |
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| The connection to theories: interpretations of state transformation | |
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| Changes in statehood | |
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| Conclusion: new debates in the wake of state transformation | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Governance, Government and the State | |
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| Understanding the so-called shift from government to governance | |
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| The resilience of institutions | |
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| Governance, the state and political power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Public/Private: The Boundaries of the State | |
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| The topography of the state | |
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| The state: complexity, accountability and depoliticization | |
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| Shifting sands: the boundaries of the state | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Changing theories of the state: has there been a convergence? | |
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| The role of the state: challenges and responses | |
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| What would a more sophisticated conceptualization of the state look like? | |
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| Future directions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |