Paradigm lost : state theory reconsidered / Stanley Aronowitz and Peter Bratsis, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aronowitz, Stanley.

Bratsis, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The.

Miliband, Ralph.

Poulantzas, Nicos Ar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume seeks to enrich and complicate current political debates by bringing state theory back to the fore and assessing its relevance to the social phenomena and thought of our day.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; State Power, Global Power; PART I: Miliband and Poulantzas in Review; ONE: The Miliband-Poulantzas Debate: An Intellectual History; TWO: The State and Contemporary Political Theory: Lessons from Marx; THREE: Bringing Poulantzas Back In; PART II: The Contemporary Relevance of Miliband and Poulantzas; FOUR: The Impoverishment of State Theory; FIVE: The Stateless Theory: Poulantzas's Challenge to Postmodernism; SIX: Eras of Protest, Compact, and Exit: On How Elites Make the World and Common People Sometimes Humanize It

SEVEN: The Withering Away of the Welfare State? Class, State, and CapitalismEIGHT: Globalization and the National State; NINE: Relative Autonomy and Its Changing Forms; PART III: Beyond Miliband and Poulantzas; TEN: Unthinking the State: Reification, Ideology, and the State as a Social Fact; ELEVEN: Global Shift: A New Capitalist State?; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Based on the conference "Miliband and Poulantzas: In Retrospect and Prospect," held in April 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8999-7

OCLC:

191934128