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State in society : studying how states and societies transform and constitute one another / Joel S. Migdal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Migdal, Joel S.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State, The.
- Social control.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Part I: Introduction
- State-in-society approach: a new definition of the state and transcending the narrowly constructed world of rigor
- Part II: Rethinking social and political change
- Model of state-society relations
- Strong states, weak states: power and accommodation
- Part III: A process-oriented approach: constituting states and societies
- Anthropology of the state: struggles for domination
- Why do so many states stay intact?
- Part IV: Linking micro- and macro-level change
- Individual change in the midst of social and political change
- Part V: Studying the state
- Studying the politics of development and change: the state of the art
- Studying the state.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780511613067 (electronic bk.)
- 0511613067 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90104715668
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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