ISBN:
9781139174268
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 333 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.2/09172/4
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1994
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Politik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Staat
;
Developing countries / Politics and government
;
Developing countries / Social conditions
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Staat
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1800-1994
Abstract:
This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states, which should be disaggregated for meaningful comparative study, are best analysed as parts of societies. States may help mould, but are also continually moulded by, the societies within which they are embedded. States' capacities, further, will vary depending on their ties to other social forces. And other social forces will be capable of being mobilised into political contention only under certain conditions. Political contention pitting states against other social forces may sometimes be mutually enfeebling, but at other times, mutually empowering
Description / Table of Contents:
The state in society : an approach to struggles for domination / Joel S. Migdal -- Traditional politics against state transformation in Brazil / Frances Hagopian -- State power and social organization in China / Vivienne Shue -- Centralization and powerlessness : India's democracy in a comparative perspective / Atul Kohli -- States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa : the enduring contradictions of power / Catherine Boone -- Labor divided : sources of state formation in modern China / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Business conflict, collaboration, and privilege in interwar Egypt / Robert Vitalis -- A time and a place for the nonstate : social change in the Ottoman Empire during the "long nineteenth century" / Reşat Kasaba -- Peasant-state relations in postcolonial Africa : patterns of engagement and disengagement / Michael Bratton -- Engaging the state : associational life in sub-Saharan Africa / Naomi Chazan -- State power and social forces : on political contention and accommodation in the Third World / Atul Kohli and Vivienne Shue
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139174268
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