Joel S. Migdal

State in Society (eBook, PDF)

Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. That approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. Despite the triumph of concept of state in social science literature, actual states have had great difficulty in turning public policies into planned social change. The state-in-society approach points observers to the ongoing struggles over which rules dictating how people will lead their daily lives. These struggles, which ally parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determine how societies and states create and maintain distinct ways of structuring day-to-day life - the nature of the rules that govern people's behavior, whom they benefit and whom they disadvantage, which sorts of elements unite people and which divide them, what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511031908
• Artikelnr.: 38196103

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The 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: 2. A model of state-society
relations; 3. Strong states, weak states: power and accommodation; Part
III. A Process-Oriented Approach - Constituting States and Societies: 4.
The state in society: an approach to struggles for domination; 5. Why do so
many states stay intact; Part IV. Linking Micro- and Macro-Level Change: 6.
Individual change in the midst of social and political change; Part V.
Studying the State: 7. Studying the politics of development and change: the
state of the art; 8. Studying the state.