Part I: Introduction -- State-in-society approach: a new definition of the state and transcending the narrowly constructed world of rigor -- Part II: Rethinking social and political change -- Model of state-society relations -- Strong states, weak states: power and accommodation -- Part III: A process-oriented approach: constituting states and societies -- Anthropology of the state: struggles for domination -- Why do so many states stay intact? -- Part IV: Linking micro- and macro-level change -- Individual change in the midst of social and political change -- Part V: Studying the state -- Studying the politics of development and change: the state of the art -- Studying the state
Summary
"The essays in this book trace the development of Joel S. Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. His process-oriented analysis illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index
