The Mechanism Of The Modern State
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Author | : Jefferey M. Sellers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108427782 |
Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.
Author | : Christopher Pierson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134331347 |
The modern state is hugely important in our everyday lives. It takes nearly half our income in taxes. It registers our births, marriages and deaths. It educates our children and pays our pensions. It has a unique power to compel, in some cases exercising the ultimate sanction of preserving life or ordering death. Yet most of us would struggle to say exactly what the state is. The Modern State offers a clear, comprehensive and provoking introduction to one of the most important phenomena of contemporary life. Topics covered include: * the nation state and its historical context * state and economy * state and societies * state and citizens * international relations * the future of the state
Author | : Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. Anter |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-02-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137364904 |
Andreas Anter reconstructs Max Weber's theory of the modern state, showing its significance to contemporary political science. He reveals the ambivalence of Weber's political thought: the oscillation between an étatiste position, mainly oriented to the reason of state, and an individualistic one, focussed on the freedom of individuals
Author | : Eric Laursen |
Publisher | : AK Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849353883 |
What do we mean when we talk about “the State”? Multiple polls show a growing disillusionment with the State and representative government as vehicles for progressive change, and particularly as means to tame capitalism, let alone as a basis for seeing beyond it. In a quick and readable format, Eric Laursen proposes thinking about the State in an entirely new way—not simply as government or legal institutions, but as humanity’s analog to a computer operating system—opening up a new interpretation of the system of governance that emerged in Europe five-hundred years ago and now drives almost every aspect of human society. He also demonstrates powerfully why humanity’s life-and-death challenges—including racism, climate change, and rising economic exploitation—cannot be addressed as long as the State continues to exercise dominion.
Author | : Joseph R. Strayer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400828570 |
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.
Author | : Jacob Weinrib |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107084288 |
Offers a public law theory that elaborates the idea of human dignity to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice.
Author | : Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745685293 |
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the course of events. Many of our problems are globally produced but the volume of power at the disposal of individual nation-states is simply not sufficient to cope with the problems they face. This divorce between power and politics produces a new kind of paralysis. It undermines the political agency that is needed to tackle the crisis and it saps citizens’ belief that governments can deliver on their promises. The impotence of governments goes hand in hand with the growing cynicism and distrust of citizens. Hence the current crisis is at once a crisis of agency, a crisis of representative democracy and a crisis of the sovereignty of the state. In this book the world-renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and fellow traveller Carlo Bordoni explore the social and political dimensions of the current crisis. While this crisis has been greatly exacerbated by the turmoil following the financial crisis of 2007-8, Bauman and Bordoni argue that the crisis facing Western societies is rooted in a much more profound series of transformations that stretch back further in time and are producing long-lasting effects. This highly original analysis of our current predicament by two of the world’s leading social thinkers will be of interest to a wide readership.
Author | : Gianfranco Poggi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781907301759 |
This book emphasises the role played in these relations by political institutions in particular.
Author | : Leonard Lawlor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1318 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139867067 |
The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.