The sociology of the state / Bertrand Badie, Pierre Birnbaum ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badie, Bertrand.

Contributor:

Birnbaum, Pierre.

Standardized Title:

Sociologie de l'Etat. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

State, The.

Political sociology.

Physical Description:

x, 171 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1983]

Summary:

Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned to jurists and political scientists, the authors lay the foundations for a strikingly original theory of the birth and subsequent diffusion of the state.

Notes:

Translation of: Sociologie de l'Etat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226035492

0226035484

OCLC:

8953769