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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)
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    Keywords: Nationalismus ; Boundaries / Case studies ; Ethnicity / Case studies ; Nationalism / Case studies ; Ethnizität ; Staatsgrenze ; Nationalismus ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Staatsgrenze ; Ethnizität ; Nationalismus
    Abstract: This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. The ten anthropological case studies collected here describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. The frontier itself may be of great symbolic importance; in other cases the symbolism lies rather in the disappearance of the traditional border. A frontier may be above all a barrier against immigration, or the front line between hostile armies. It may reinforce distinctive identities on each side of it, or the frontier may be disputed because it cuts across national identities. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the book explores how cultural landscapes intersect with political boundaries, and ways in which state power informs cultural identity
    Description / Table of Contents: Nation, state and identity at international borders / Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan --- State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Peter Sahlins --- A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures / William A. Douglass --- The 'new immigration' and the transformation of the European-African frontier / Henk Driessen --- Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of Empire / Michael Kearney --- National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli education system / Dan Rabinowitz -- Grenzregime (border regimes): the Wall and its aftermath / John Borneman --- Transcending the state?: gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe / A.P. Cheater --- Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery / Janet Carsten --- Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey / Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann --- Imagining 'the south': hybridity, heterotopias and Arabesk on the Turkish-Syrian border / Martin Stokes
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9780253004079
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (300 pages)
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    Keywords: Chiefdoms ; Post-apartheid era ; Democracy ; Local government ; Chiefdoms ; South Africa ; Democracy ; South Africa ; Local government ; South Africa ; Post-apartheid era ; South Africa ; South Africa ; Politics and government ; 1994- ; South Africa ; Social conditions ; 1994- ; Electronic books ; South Africa Social conditions 1994- ; South Africa Politics and government 1994-
    Abstract: As South Africa consolidates its democracy, chieftaincy has remained a controversial and influential institution that has adapted to recent changes. J. Michael Williams examines the chieftaincy and how it has sought to assert its power since the end of apartheid. By taking local-level politics seriously and looking closely at how chiefs negotiate the new political order, Williams takes a position between those who see the chieftaincy as an indigenous democratic form deserving recognition and protection, and those who view it as incompatible with democracy. Williams describes a network of formal and informal accommodations that have influenced the ways state and local authorities interact. By focusing on local perceptions of the chieftaincy and its interactions with the state, Williams reveals an ongoing struggle for democratization at the local and national levels in South Africa.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The Chieftaincy, the State, and the Desire to Dominate -- 2. "The Binding Together of the People": The Historical Development of the Chieftaincy and the Principle of Unity -- 3. The Making of a Mixed Polity: The Accommodation and Transformation of the Chieftaincy -- 4. The Contested Nature of Politics, Democracy, and Rights in Rural South Africa -- 5. The Chieftaincy and the Establishment of Local Government: Multiple Boundaries and the Ambiguities of Representation -- 6. The Chieftaincy and Development: Expanding the Parameters of Tradition -- 7. Legitimacy Lost? The Fall of a Chief and the Survival of a Chieftaincy -- 8. Conclusion: The Chieftaincy and the Post-Apartheid State: Legitimacy and Democracy in a Mixed Polity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521884334 , 9780521711241
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 234 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
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    Keywords: Right and left (Political science) Case studies ; Polarization (Social sciences) ; Authoritarianism ; United States Politics and government 2001-2009 ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: The left and right in America are now divided by politically irreconcilable worldviews, and the root of that divide is authoritarianism
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Spanking or Time Out: A Clash of Worldviews?; What Is Authoritarianism?; The Term ""Authoritarianism""; Authoritarianism and Worldview Evolution; The Plan of the Book; 2 Putting Polarization in Perspective; Mass Polarization?; Little Evidence of Popular Polarization; Strong Indication of Partisan Polarization (or Sorting); The Things that Divide Americans Today Run to Their Core; Authoritarianism and Polarization; Conclusion; 3 Authoritarianism and Nonauthoritarianism: Concepts and Measures
    Description / Table of Contents: Characteristics of AuthoritarianismCharacteristics of Nonauthoritarianism; Measuring Authoritarianism; Data Sources; Construct Validity; Relevant Changes in the Parties' Electoral Bases; Conclusion; 4 A Historical Account of the Roots of Worldview Evolution; From Issue Evolution to Worldview Evolution; The Key Issues; Conclusion; 5 Authoritarianism's Structuring of Contemporary Issues; Gay Rights; The War on Terror; Preliminary Evidence of Authoritarianism's Effect on Preferences for Gay Rights; A More Rigorous Test using Gay Rights Issues; Results
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary Evidence of Authoritarianism's Effect on War on Terror PreferencesMore Rigorous Tests - CCES Data; Results; Issue Type and Polarization; Conclusion; 6 Threat and Authoritarianism: Polarization or Convergence; What a Positive Interaction and a Negative Interaction Mean; Why Previous Analysis Suggests a Positive Interaction; Some Descriptive Evidence; Testing the Hypothesis; Conclusion; 7 Evidence of Worldview Evolution; From Issue Evolution to Worldview Evolution; The First Step: Voting Behavior; Explaining Partisanship; Results; An Apparent Asymmetry
    Description / Table of Contents: The Future of Partisan Polarization on Authoritarian IssuesConclusion; 8 Immigration: A Reinforcing Cleavage that Now Constrains the Republican Party (GOP); A Brief Recent History; Authoritarianism and Preferences on Immigration; Conclusion; 9 What the 2008 Democratic Nomination Struggle Reveals about Party Polarization; Sticky Preferences; Why Authoritarianism in the Democratic Primary?; Hard Evidence; Conclusion; 10 A New View of Polarization; On Manliness; On Polarization; How Different Worldviews Matter to Polarization Claims; A Final Word; Epilogue; The 2008 General Election
    Description / Table of Contents: Campaign ThemesThe Outcome; Bibliography; Index
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511581120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 272 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boswell, Christina, 1972 - The political uses of expert knowledge
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    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Research ; European Union countries. ; Political planning European Union countries. ; Policy sciences Case studies. ; Knowledge, Sociology of Case studies. ; Policy sciences Case studies ; Knowledge, Sociology of Case studies ; Political planning ; Emigration and immigration Research ; Emigration and immigration ; Research ; European Union countries ; Political planning ; European Union countries ; Policy sciences ; Case studies ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Case studies ; European Union countries ; Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; Europäische Union 〈 EU〉 ; EU ; Mitgliedsstaat 〈 EU〉 ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Emigration ; Wissenssoziologie ; Wissenstransfer ; Politische Planung ; Großbritannien ; Deutschland ; Europäische Union ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Wissenschaftstransfer ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; Government policy. ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Europäische Union ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Politische Planung ; Wissenschaftstransfer ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Großbritannien ; Deutschland ; Politische Planung ; Wissenssoziologie ; Einwanderungspolitik
    Abstract: Why do politicians and civil servants commission research and what use do they make of it in policymaking? The received wisdom is that research contributes to improving government policy. Christina Boswell challenges this view, arguing that policymakers are just as likely to value expert knowledge for two alternative reasons: as a way of lending authority to their preferences; or to signal their capacity to make sound decisions. Boswell develops a compelling new theory of the role of knowledge in policy, showing how policymakers use research to establish authority in contentious and risky areas of policy. She illustrates her argument with an analysis of European immigration policies, charting the ways in which expertise becomes a resource for lending credibility to controversial claims, underpinning high-risk decisions or bolstering the credibility of government agencies.
    Abstract: The political functions of knowledge -- The puzzle : explaning the uses of knowledge -- Instrumental knowledge and organizational legitimacy -- The symbolic functions of knowledge -- The use of knowledge in public policy debates -- The case of immigration policy -- The politics of immigration in germany and the uk -- The British Home Office -- The German Federal Office for Migration -- The European Commission -- organizations and cultures of expertise -- Extending the theory -- Knowledge and policy
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 306 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence ; Darwin, Charles ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Geschichte ; Psychologie ; Weltkrieg (1914-1918) ; Aggressiveness / History ; Social Darwinism / History ; Biopolitics / History ; World War, 1914-1918 / Causes ; War / Psychological aspects / History ; Peace / Psychological aspects / History ; Theorie ; Biologie ; Friede ; Krieg ; Darwinismus ; Soziobiologie ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Darwinismus ; Gesellschaft ; Darwinismus ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Darwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Sozialdarwinismus ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Krieg ; Soziobiologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918 ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; Krieg ; Friede ; Krieg ; Friede ; Biologie ; Geschichte 1859-1918
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Darwinian legacy.--2. The age of Spencer and Huxley.--3. Crisis in the west: the pre-war generation and the new biology.-- 4. 'The natural decline of warfare': anti-war evolutionism prior to 1914.--5. The first owrld war: man the fighting animal.--6. The survival of peace biology.--7. Naturalistic fallacies and noble ends.--8. Conclusion
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780203927724 , 0203927729
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Transformations
    Series Statement: thinking through feminism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moore, Lindsey Arab, Muslim, woman
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Muslimin ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Arabische Staaten ; Postkolonialismus ; Muslimin ; Film 16 mm
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  • 7
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 9780253002808
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (321 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Muslims in Western Politics
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    Keywords: Muslims ; Muslims Congresses Government policy ; Muslims Congresses Government policy ; Muslims Congresses Politics and government ; Muslims Congresses Politics and government ; Muslims Congresses Politics and government ; Muslims Congresses Government policy ; Muslims ; Canada ; Politics and government ; Congresses ; Muslims ; Europe, Western ; Politics and government ; Congresses ; Muslims ; Government policy ; Canada ; Congresses ; Muslims ; Government policy ; Europe, Western ; Congresses ; Muslims ; Government policy ; United States ; Congresses ; Muslims ; United States ; Politics and government ; Congresses ; Muslims ; Western countries ; Electronic books ; Canada Congresses Politics and government 1980- ; United States Congresses Politics and government 2001-2009 ; Europe, Western Congresses Politics and government 1989- ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Conference papers and proceedings
    Abstract: Looking closely at relations between Muslims and their host countries, Abdulkader H. Sinno and an international group of scholars examine questions of political representation, identity politics, civil liberties, immigration, and security issues. While many have problematized Muslims in the West, this volume takes a unique stance by viewing Muslims as a normative, and even positive, influence in Western politics. Squarely political and transatlantic in scope, the essays in this collected work focus on Islam and Muslim citizens in Europe and the Americas since 9/11, the European bombings, and the recent riots in France. Main topics include Muslim political participation and activism, perceptions about Islam and politics, Western attitudes about Muslim visibility in the political arena, radicalization of Muslims in an age of apparent shrinking of civil liberties, and personal security in politically uneasy times.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- 1 An Institutional Approach to the Politics of Western Muslim Minorities -- Part One · Western Muslims and Established State-Religion Relations -- 2 Claiming Space in America's Pluralism: Muslims Enter the Political Maelstrom -- 3 The Practice of Their Faith: Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany -- 4 Religion, Muslims, and the State in Britain and France: From Westphalia to 9/11 -- Part Two · Western Muslims and Political Institutions -- 5 Muslim Underrepresentation in American Politics -- 6 Muslims Representing Muslims in Europe: Parties and Associations after 9/11 -- 7 Muslims in UK Institutions: Effective Representation or Tokenism? -- Part Three · Institutional Underpinnings of Perceptions of Western Muslims -- 8 How Europe and Its Muslim Populations See Each Other -- 9 Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use -- 10 The Racialization of Muslim Americans -- Part Four · Western Muslims, Civil Rights, and Legal Institutions -- 11 Canadian National Security Policy and Canadian Muslim Communities -- 12 Counterterrorism and the Civil Rights of Muslim Minorities in the European Union -- 13 The Preventive Paradigm and the Rule of Law: How Not to Fight Terrorism -- 14 Recommendations for Western Policy Makers and Muslim Organizations -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511791031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxii, 199 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1960-2006 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Race discrimination / Cuba / History / 20th century ; Rassenpolitik ; Cuba / Race relations / Political aspects ; Cuba / Politics and government / 1959-1990 ; Kuba ; Kuba ; Rassenpolitik ; Geschichte 1960-2006
    Abstract: This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations. It places the Cuban revolution in a comparative and international framework and challenges arguments that the regime eliminated racial inequality or that it was profoundly racist. Through interviews, historical materials, and survey research, it provides a balanced view. The book maintains that Cuba has not been a racial democracy as some have argued. However, it also argues that Cuba has done more than any other society to eliminate racial inequality. The contemporary outlook of the book demonstrates how much of Cuban racial ideology was unchanged by the revolution. Thus, the current implementation of market reforms and in particular tourism has exacerbated racial inequalities. Finally, it holds that despite these shortcomings, the regime remains popular among blacks because they perceive their alternatives of the US and the Miami Exile community to be far worse
    Description / Table of Contents: Race cycles, racial hierarchy, and inclusionary discrimination : a dynamic approach -- Freedom and discrimination : uneven inequality and inclusion in prerevolutionary Cuba -- Race and revolution : transformation and continuity -- Match made in heaven or strange bedfellows? : Black radicals in Castro's Cuba -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period : Part I. Interview data -- Race and daily life in Cuba during the Special Period : Part II. Survey research. -- Racial politics in Miami : Ninety miles and a world away
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511817274
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 580 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Politik ; Political atrocities ; Genocide ; State-sponsored terrorism ; Ethnicity / Political aspects ; Democracy / Moral and ethical aspects ; Vertreibung ; Nationalismus ; Nationalstaat ; Minderheitenfrage ; Ethnizität ; Entstehung ; Völkermord ; Staat ; Akteur ; Electronic books ; Minderheitenfrage ; Vertreibung ; Nationalstaat ; Entstehung ; Ethnizität ; Nationalismus ; Völkermord ; Staat ; Vertreibung ; Akteur ; Staat ; Völkermord ; Akteur
    Abstract: A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethno-national movements each claims 'its own' state over the same territory. Conflict escalates where either the weaker side fights because of aid from outside, or the stronger side believes it can deploy sudden, overwhelming force. Escalation is not simply the work of 'evil elites' or 'primitive peoples'. It results from complex interactions between leaders, militants, and 'core constituencies' of ethno-nationalism. Understanding this complex process helps us devise policies to avoid ethnic cleansing in the future
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139167963
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Sozialgeschichte 1775-1830 ; Geschichte 1775-1830 ; Geschichte ; Radikalismus ; Radicalism / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Radicalism / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Quelle ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 18th century ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Geschichte 1775-1830 ; Quelle ; Großbritannien ; Sozialgeschichte 1775-1830
    Abstract: The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of social debate had been affected by intellectual developments and the increasingly rapid transformations of society. Then in Part II he discusses ten major critics of British society, from Thomas Spence to William Cobbett, who represent a wide range of political opinion from anarchism to Tory radicalism. Dr. Stafford takes a key text by each author, sets out its argument, and analyzes it both critically and historically, showing the particular influences that shaped it and revealing the ways in which the social thought of the time resembles or diverges from our own. This book will help to recover from unwarranted neglect this important tradition of writing that did much to form subsequent thinking about society. It will make a valuable contribution to the study of the literature and the social and intellectual history of the period
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    ISBN: 9780511898273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages)
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    DDC: 306/.2/09415
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1922-1932 ; Geschichte 1922-1949 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Constitutional history / Ireland ; Representative government and representation / Ireland / History / 20th century ; Demokratie ; Politisches System ; Irland ; Ireland / Politics and government / 1922-1949 ; Irland ; Irland ; Politisches System ; Geschichte 1922-1949 ; Irland ; Demokratie ; Geschichte 1922-1949 ; Irland ; Geschichte 1922-1932
    Abstract: Most of the independent nations of the twentieth century have been racked by political disorder and social instability. Ireland is one of the few to have successfully established a stable democratic order. In this book, Jeffrey Prager examines the first decade of Irish independence in order to explain how the Republic of Ireland achieved democracy. In so doing, he provides a deeper understanding of the Irish case while shedding light on the process of democratic consolidation in modern state-building. His combination of political and cultural approaches also contributes to the development of a political sociology that encompasses the problem of cultural meaning as a crucial domain of analysis. By exploring the interconnections between political structures, social activities, and cultural legacies, he promotes an awareness of the vital dimensions of political life and institutions
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511628283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 390 pages)
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    DDC: 361.6/1
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    Keywords: Policy sciences ; State, The ; Staatslehre ; Politischer Prozess ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Staat ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Politischer Prozess ; Staat ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Staatslehre
    Abstract: 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 major parts presents a related set of analytical issues about modern states, which are explored in the context of a wide range of times and places, both contemporary and historical, and in developing and advanced-industrial nations. The first part examines state strategies in newly developing countries. The second part analyzes war making and state making in early modern Europe, and discusses states in relation to the post-World War II international economy. The third part pursues new insights into how states influence political cleavages and collective action. In the final chapter, the editors bring together the questions raised by the contributors and suggest tentative conclusions that emerge from an overview of all the articles. As a programmatic work that proposes new directions for the analysis of modern states, the volume will appeal to a wide range of teachers and students of political science, political economy, sociology, history, and anthropology
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