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The nature and development of the modern state / Graeme Gill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gill, Graeme J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State, The.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 301 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic, and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance. This lively and accessible new book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role, and future of the modern state and makes its own distinct contribution to tracing out continuities and changes in its development.
- Contents:
- 1 The Modern State 1
- What is the State? 2
- Perspectives on the Role of the State 8
- State Autonomy and Interdependence 12
- State Capacity 22
- The Role of Power 24
- 2 The Ancient State 33
- The Ancient City-State 35
- The Ancient Empires 47
- The Ancient State and Institutional Interdependence 58
- The Ancient State 68
- 3 The Feudal and Early Modern State 73
- The Feudal System 74
- The Consolidation and Centralization of Administrative Power 80
- Absolutism and Constitutionalism 97
- Institutional Interdependence? 104
- 4 The State, Capitalism and Industrialization 115
- The State and Industrialism 117
- The 'Late Developers' 124
- Industrialization and the Development of State Infrastructure 127
- The Social Embedding of the State 139
- 5 The Western State and the Outside World 149
- War and the State 152
- National Identity 158
- The Wider World 160
- The Asian State 169
- The Uniqueness of the Western State? 185
- Colonial Globalization? 191
- 6 The Twentieth Century: The State Embedded? 194
- Welfare Capitalism 194
- The Communist Challenge 210
- Capitalist Success, Communist Failure? 222
- No Third Way 224
- 7 State Capacity in a Globalized World 226
- Economic Globalization 227
- Political Globalization 230
- Cultural/Ideological Globalization 234
- The Limits of Globalization 239
- The State and Globalization 246
- The Longue Duree of the State 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 033380449X
- 0333804503
- OCLC:
- 51818614
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