The Elusive state : international and comparative perspectives
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The Elusive state : international and comparative perspectives
Sage Publications, c1989
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In The Elusive State the idea of the state serves as an umbrella concept, as a way of focusing otherwise disparate subject matters. The literature on comparative and international politics are as far apart as ever, despite the purported breakdown of the traditional dividing lines between domestic and international politics (a view which some of the papers in this volume explicitly reject). Some of the topics included for discussion are the contradictory ways in which the state is viewed (omnicompetent or impotent), states most likely to develop the institutions and political culture of police states, and the historical perspective of sovereignty.
Table of Contents
Introduction - James A Caporaso
The State in an Era of Cascading Politics - James N Rosenau
Wavering Concept, Widening Competence, Withering Colossus, or Weathering Change?
War, Revolution, and the Growth of the Coercive State - Ted Robert Gurr
Sovereignty - Stephen D Krasner
An Institutional Perspective
Radicals and the State - Gregg O Kvistad
The Political Demands on West German Civil Servants
Tactical Advantages Versus Administrative Heterogeneity - David Wilsford
the Strengths and the Limits of the French State
Minding the State -- Or a State of Mind - Bert A Rockman
Issues in the Comparative Conceptualization of the State
State, Local State, Context and Spatiality - Andrew Kirby
a Reappraisal of State Theory
Sovereignty in Historical Perspective - Janice E Thomson
The Evolution of State Control Over Extraterritorial Violence
China - Jeremy Paltiel
Mexicanization or Reform?
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