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Bringing the state back in /

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, alth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, Joint Committee on Western Europe
Otros Autores: Evans, Peter B., 1944- (Editor ), Rueschemeyer, Dietrich (Editor ), Skocpol, Theda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.