Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein is able to look at the modern nation-state from many different angles: as a head of state; as a politician, who had to win popular votes in a direct democracy; as a businessman active in different continents; and, as an historian who has studied…
This text offers a radical interpretation of welfare regimes and their likely future development. Building on an account of the principal contradictions and dilemmas of capital as a social relation, Bob Jessop explores interrelated aspects of all capitalist welfare regimes. Thes…
Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations. <br /><br />In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob Jess…
A discussion of protest in China, spanning the Imperial, Republic and Communist eras. It introduces Chinese patterns and provides a forum to consider ways in which contentious politics in China might serve to reinforce, refine or reshape theories derived from Western cases.
Engages with the textual basis of Foucault's lectures and provides insights into the traditions, methods and theories of political power identifying the authoritarian as well as liberal sides of governmentality.
Three chapters on aspects of state theory. The themes covered are different forms of corporatism and their implications for capital accumulation, the representation of business in the the capitalist type of state, and the class nature of the dem ocratic state.
It is commonly assumed that the rise of modern democracies put an end to the spectacular and ceremonial aspects of political rule that were so characteristic of monarchies and other earlier regimes. The medieval idea that the king had two bodies - a mortal physical body and an e…
Despite the extensive debate about the impact of globalization, democratization and new forms of governance, there have been surprisingly few attempts to provide an integrated account of the state in the contemporary world. Roger King and Gavin Kendall's text is designed to fill…
The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry in a broad range of disciplines. New methodological and theoretical approaches have shed light on the meanings and practices that, for good and for bad, turn the state into the great enframer of our lives. This vol…
