The state and political theory / Martin Carnoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carnoy, Martin, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communist state.

State, The.

Political science--United States.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Martin Carnoy clarifies the important contemporary debate on the social role of an increasingly complex State. He analyzes the most recent recasting of Marxist political theories in continental Europe, the Third World, and the United States; sets the new theories in a context of past thinking about the State; and argues for the existence of a major shift in Marxist views.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. The State and American Political Thought

Chapter Two. Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the State

Chapter Three. Gramsci and the State

Chapter Four. Structuralism and the State: Althusser and Poulantzas

Chapter Five. The German Debate

Chapter Six. The State, Democracy, and the Transition to Socialism

Chapter Seven. The Dependent State

Chapter Eight. Class and State in Recent American Political Theory

Chapter Nine. Whither Theories of the State?

Selected Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [263]-270.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691640600

0691640602

9781400853458

1400853451

OCLC:

927510819