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The State in Global Perspective

Kazancigil, Ali; (Ed.)
Publisher:  Gower Publishing Co., Brookfield, USA
Year Published:  1986  
Pages:  300pp   ISBN:  0-566-05160-5
Library of Congress Number:  JC325.K39 1986   Dewey:  306'.2 JA76
Resource Type:  Book

The expansion of the modern state is a central phenomenon of our time. A dominating force, as well as a guardian of society, it elecits contradictory feelings of repulsion and attraction. Fourteen scholars have contributed to this volume of essasy on the political, social, cultural and economic processes of the state.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Aki Kazancigil

PART 1 Origins and formation
1 Processes of state formation
Maurice Godelier
2 Comparative analysis of the state in historical contexts
S.N. Eisenstadt
3 State formation in early India
Romila Thapar
4 Strategic interactions and the formation of modern states:
France and England
Aristide R. Zolberg
5 The triple heritage of the state in Africa
Ali A. Mari
6 Paradigms of modern state formation in the periphery
Ali Kazancigil

PART II Structures and Functions
7 The states in the institutional vortex of the capitalist world-economy
Immanuel Wallerstein
8 The functions of the modern state: in search of a theory
Philip Resnick
9 Pluralism, violence and the modern state
M.G. Smith
10 Neo-Marxist, pluralist,corporatist,statist theories and the welfare state
Goran Therborn
11 State, Ideologies and collective action in Western Europe
Pierre Birnbaum
12 `State', legitimacy and protest in Islamic culture
Bertrand Bade
13 The forms of the socialist state
VIE. Chirkin
14 The theory of the state and the Third World
Marcos Kaplan

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