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The State : Past, Present, Future.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Newark : Polity Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780745678603
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.1
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Contents:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: The State as Concept, Relation, and Reality -- 2: The Concept of the State -- Notes on the Difficulties of Studying the State -- So What Is the State? -- The Three-Element Approach -- More on the Territorialization of Political Power -- The Polymorphic Character of the State -- Stateness as a Variable -- Constituting the State -- A Four-Element Definition of the State -- Interim Conclusions -- Notes -- 3: The State as a Social Relation -- The Strategic-Relational Approach -- Dimensions of the State -- The Paradox of State and Society -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4: Power, Interests, Domination, State Effects -- Power as the explanans or the explanandum? -- Interests and Domination -- The State and Class Domination -- The Articulation of Economic, Political, and Ideological Domination -- The Limits to Form Analysis and the State in Capitalist Societies -- On Social Imaginaries and the Critique of Ideologies -- Conclusions -- Note -- Part II: On Territory, Apparatus, and Population -- 5: The State and Space-Time -- Sociospatiality -- Territorialization and State Formation -- Territory, Place, Scale, Network -- Domination and Spatiotemporal Fixes -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 6: State and Nation -- National State and Nation-State -- Europe as a Territorial State and as a Nation-State -- Towards a World State and a World Society? -- Notes -- 7: Government + Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy -- Governance and Complexity -- Governance Failure and Meta-Governance -- From Government to Governance -- Meta-Governance as Politics and Policy -- The Success and Failure of Meta-Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy -- Conclusions -- Note -- Part III: Past and Present (Futures) of the State.
8: The World Market and the World of States -- Framing the Problem -- Theoretical Debates on the World Market and World of States -- World Market Integration and the State System -- The Growing Dominance of the Logic of Capital -- Trends and Counter-trends in State Responses -- Loss of Temporal Sovereignty -- Conclusions -- Note -- 9: Liberal Democracy, Exceptional States, and the New Normal -- 'The Best Possible Political Shell'? -- States of Emergency and Exceptional Regimes -- Political Crisis and States of Emergency -- Authoritarian Statism -- Towards an Enduring Austerity State -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 10: The Future of States and Statehood -- Is State Theory Eurocentric? -- Whither the State? -- Whither State Theory? -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- End User License Agreement.
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: The State as Concept, Relation, and Reality -- 2: The Concept of the State -- Notes on the Difficulties of Studying the State -- So What Is the State? -- The Three-Element Approach -- More on the Territorialization of Political Power -- The Polymorphic Character of the State -- Stateness as a Variable -- Constituting the State -- A Four-Element Definition of the State -- Interim Conclusions -- Notes -- 3: The State as a Social Relation -- The Strategic-Relational Approach -- Dimensions of the State -- The Paradox of State and Society -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4: Power, Interests, Domination, State Effects -- Power as the explanans or the explanandum? -- Interests and Domination -- The State and Class Domination -- The Articulation of Economic, Political, and Ideological Domination -- The Limits to Form Analysis and the State in Capitalist Societies -- On Social Imaginaries and the Critique of Ideologies -- Conclusions -- Note -- Part II: On Territory, Apparatus, and Population -- 5: The State and Space-Time -- Sociospatiality -- Territorialization and State Formation -- Territory, Place, Scale, Network -- Domination and Spatiotemporal Fixes -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 6: State and Nation -- National State and Nation-State -- Europe as a Territorial State and as a Nation-State -- Towards a World State and a World Society? -- Notes -- 7: Government + Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy -- Governance and Complexity -- Governance Failure and Meta-Governance -- From Government to Governance -- Meta-Governance as Politics and Policy -- The Success and Failure of Meta-Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy -- Conclusions -- Note -- Part III: Past and Present (Futures) of the State.

8: The World Market and the World of States -- Framing the Problem -- Theoretical Debates on the World Market and World of States -- World Market Integration and the State System -- The Growing Dominance of the Logic of Capital -- Trends and Counter-trends in State Responses -- Loss of Temporal Sovereignty -- Conclusions -- Note -- 9: Liberal Democracy, Exceptional States, and the New Normal -- 'The Best Possible Political Shell'? -- States of Emergency and Exceptional Regimes -- Political Crisis and States of Emergency -- Authoritarian Statism -- Towards an Enduring Austerity State -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 10: The Future of States and Statehood -- Is State Theory Eurocentric? -- Whither the State? -- Whither State Theory? -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- End User License Agreement.

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