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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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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