Title Bringing the state back in / edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description 1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Bringing the state back in : strategies of analysis in current research / Theda Skocpol -- pt. 1. States as promoters of economic development and social redistribution -- The state and economic transformation : toward an analysis of the conditions underlying effective intervention / Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Peter B. Evans -- The state and Taiwan's economic development / Alice H. Amsden -- State structures and the possibilities of "Keynesian" responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States / Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol -- pt. 2. States and transnational relations -- War making and state making as organized crime / Charles Tilly -- Transnational linkages and the economic role of the state : an analysis of developing and industrialized nations in the post-World War II period / Peter B. Evans -- Small nations in an open international economy : the converging balance of state and society in Switzerland and Austria / Peter Katzenstein -- pt. 3. States and the patterning of social conflicts -- Working-class formation and the state : nineteenth-century England in American perspective / Ira Katznelson -- Hegemony and religious conflict : British imperial control and political cleavages in Yorubaland / David D. Laitin -- State power and strength of civil society in the southern cone of Latin America / Alfred Stepan -- Conclusion -- On the road toward a more adequate understanding of the state / Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol Summary 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 Notes Papers from a conference held at Mount Kisco, N.Y., February 1982, sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, and the Joint Committee on Western European Studies of the Social Science Research Council Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September 5, 2017) Subject Policy sciences. State, The. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services. Policy sciences State, The Staat Aufsatzsammlung Politische Wissenschaft Politischer Prozess Staat (politicologie) Overheidsbeleid. Kapitalisme. Politique publique. Etat. Form Electronic book Author Evans, Peter B., 1944- editor. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, editor. Skocpol, Theda, editor. Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures. Joint Committee on Latin American Studies. Joint Committee on Western Europe. ISBN 9781107715899 110771589X 9781107720022 1107720028 9780511628283 0511628285 1107713005 9781107713000 1107712653 9781107712652

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