A Theory of the State

A Theory of the State
Author: Yoram Barzel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521000642

This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it.

The State of Democratic Theory

The State of Democratic Theory
Author: Ian Shapiro
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 140082589X

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action. Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating preferences; others deal with collective deliberation in search of the common good. Shapiro reveals the shortcomings of both, arguing instead that democracy should be geared toward minimizing domination throughout society. He contends that Joseph Schumpeter's classic defense of competitive democracy is a useful starting point for achieving this purpose, but that it stands in need of radical supplementation--both with respect to its operation in national political institutions and in its extension to other forms of collective association. Shapiro's unusually wide-ranging discussion also deals with the conditions that make democracy's survival more and less likely, with the challenges presented by ethnic differences and claims for group rights, and with the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth. Ranging over politics, philosophy, constitutional law, economics, sociology, and psychology, this book is written in Shapiro's characteristic lucid style--a style that engages practitioners within the field while also opening up the debate to newcomers.

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Total Pages: 44
Release: 1992
Genre: Transportation, Automotive
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The State of State Theory

The State of State Theory
Author: Davita Silfen Glasberg
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1498542492

In The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the multiple sites of power along which the state governs. Using state projects and policies around political economy, sexuality and family, food, welfare policy, racial formation, and social movements as narrative accounts in how the state operates, the authors argue for a complex and intersectional approach to state theory. In doing so, they expand outside of the canon to engage with perspectives within critical race theory, queer theory, and beyond to build theoretical tools for a contemporary and critical state theory capable of providing the foundations for understanding how the state governs, what is at stake in its governance, and, importantly, how people resist and engage with state power.

Solid State Theory

Solid State Theory
Author: Walter A. Harrison
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486152235

DIVThorough, modern study of solid state physics; solid types and symmetry, electron states, electronic properties and cooperative phenomena. /div

State Theory

State Theory
Author: Bob Jessop
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 074566735X

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda for state research. Four central themes define the scope of the book: an account of the bases of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state theory as part of a more general social theory; the possibilities of explaining 'capitalist societalization' without assuming that the economy is the ultimate determinant of societal dynamics; and a defence of the method of articulation in theory construction. In developing these issues, Bob Jessop both builds on and goes well beyond the view presented in his earlier books, The Capitalist State (1982) and Nicos Poulantzas (1985). The result is a highly original statement which will become a center-point of discussion. The volume confirms the author's standing as one of the most important post-War Marxist state theorists.

The Capitalist State

The Capitalist State
Author: Bob Jessop
Publisher: New York : New York University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1982
Genre: Capitalism.
ISBN: 9780814741641

Solid State Theory

Solid State Theory
Author: Ulrich Rössler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3662099403

"Solid-State Theory - An Introduction" is a textbook for graduate students of physics and material sciences. Whilst covering the traditional topics of older textbooks, it also takes up new developments in theoretical concepts and materials that are connected with such breakthroughs as the quantum-Hall effects, the high-Tc superconductors, and the low-dimensional systems realized in solids. Thus besides providing the fundamental concepts to describe the physics of the electrons and ions comprising the solid, including their interactions, the book casts a bridge to the experimental facts and gives the reader an excellent insight into current research fields. A compilation of problems makes the book especially valuable to both students and teachers.

Rethinking State Theory

Rethinking State Theory
Author: Mark J Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136295933

In the last two decades, objects of analysis such as 'the state' have increasingly been seen as uncertain and contested theoretical concepts. Mark J. Smith presents a counter argument that highlights how existing theoretical approaches can provide useful tools for understanding contemporary political developments.