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Author : Robert Morrison MacIver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Modern State written by Robert Morrison MacIver and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134331347
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Modern State written by Christopher Pierson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Hislope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765161
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Comparative Politics written by Robert Hislope and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.
Author : David Held
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745667104
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Political Theory and the Modern State written by David Held and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an incisive overview of central issues and controversies in political thought and analysis. It includes major discussions of the idea of the modern state, contemporary theories of the state, problems of power and legitimation, new forms of democratic ideal, citizenship and social movements, the direction of public policy and the fate of sovereignty in the modern global system. While analysing these topics, the author critically assesses the thought of many of those who have contributed decisively to political discussion. Among those whose works are discussed are classic figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Mill and Marx, as well as contemporary writers such as Habermas, Offe and Giddens. Political Theory and the Modern State is an ideal resource for students seeking an introduction to modern politics and political sociology. It is also an original statement about the many competing perspectives in political thought today.
Author : Gianfranco Poggi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804710428
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Development of the Modern State written by Gianfranco Poggi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The institutional features and the past and future role of the state should be a central concern of contemporary sociological and political theory, but until now they have been sadly neglected. Lately, in particular, the state's increasing involvement in the management of industrial and industrializing societies has made it even more important to understand its past development, its current activities, and the related trends in its structure and in its relation to the larger society. As a contribution to this task, Gianfranco Poggi reviews the main phases in the institutional history of the modern state. Restating a typology elaborated, among others by Max Weber, he outlines first the feudal system of rule, then the late-medieval Ständestaat and the absolutist state. Next the book discusses the nineteenth-century constitutional state, seen as the most accomplished embodiment of the modern, Western state. Finally, it points out the major developments which have occurred since the end of the last century in the relationship between the state and society, and identifies the threat these pose to the persistence of Western political values. Throughout, the discussion draws upon an impressive body of literature on the modern state (much of it not available in English) from the fields of history, law, and the social sciences.
Author : George A. Gonzalez
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438469829
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System written by George A. Gonzalez and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics. In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something of a crescendo with the global hegemony of Pax Americana in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He presents a clear and concise case for viewing the modern state as the collaborative and affirmative union of capitalism and political authority in a setting where energy resources, be it wind, coal, or oil, provide the basis for the relatively inexpensive projection of political power. More broadly, energy serves as the foundation of the modern economy and, because of this, a prime function of the modern state is ensuring access to cheap, reliable sources to power and grow the economy. Historically, energy is more of a zero-sum resource than capital, markets, labor, or technology, and thus is a greater source of geopolitical tension and violence. Energy politics, and by extension international politics is, moreover, shaped by domestic corporate elites, especially those within the United States. George A. Gonzalez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami and the author of many books, including Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States and Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic, both also published by SUNY Press.
Author : Christopher W. Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524070
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Modern State written by Christopher W. Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book is the first serious philosophical examination of the modern state. It inquires into the justification of this particular form of political society. It asks whether all states are "nation-states," what are the alternative ways of organizing society, and which conditions make a state legitimate. The author concludes that, while states can be legitimate, they typically fail to have the powers (e.g. sovereignity) that they claim. Christopher Morris has written a book that will command the attention of political philosophers, political scientists, legal theorists, and specialists in international relations.
Author : Sven Steinmo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490370
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Modern States written by Sven Steinmo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Modern States, first published in 2010, is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the early twenty-first century? Drawing on insights from evolutionary theory, Sven Steinmo challenges the common equilibrium view of politics and economics and argues that modern political economies are best understood as complex adaptive systems. The book examines the political, social, and economic history of three different nations - Sweden, Japan, and the United States - and explains how and why these countries have evolved along such different trajectories over the past century. Bringing together social and economic history, institutionalism, and evolutionary theory, Steinmo thus provides a comprehensive explanation for differing responses to globalization as well as a new way of analyzing institutional and social change.
Author : Richard Devetak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139505602
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to International Relations written by Richard Devetak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable to students and those approaching the subject for the first time, An Introduction to International Relations, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to international relations, its traditions and its changing nature in an era of globalisation. Thoroughly revised and updated, it features chapters written by a range of experts from around the world. It presents a global perspective on the theories, history, developments and debates that shape this dynamic discipline and contemporary world politics. Now in full-colour and accompanied by a password-protected companion website featuring additional chapters and case studies, this is the indispensable guide to the study of international relations.
Author : John H. Schaar
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412827485
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Legitimacy in the Modern State written by John H. Schaar and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the concept of authority in Western society constitutes a central work in political sociology and a fundamental critique of the process of modernization. Schaar proposes that legitimate authority is declining in the modern state. Law and order, in a very real sense, is the basic political issue of our time -- one that conservatives have understood with greater clarity than their liberal adversaries. Schaar sees what were once authoritative institutions and ideas yielding to technological and bureaucratic orders. The later brings physical comfort and a sense of collective power, but does not provide political liberty or moral autonomy. As a result, he argues, all modern states exhibiting this transformation of authority into technology are well advanced along the path of a crisis of legitimacy.
Author : B. Nelson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983283
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Modern State written by B. Nelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state formations to the present. A major theme of the book is the need to understand the modern state holistically, as a totality of social, political, and ideological factors.
Author : Harold A. Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487518919
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Political Economy in the Modern State written by Harold A. Innis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis’s growing focus on what would be called media bias. In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis’s largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis’s volume reflects a shift in Innis’s focus, away from analytical relativism towards, instead, a reflexive search for objective truths.
Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828570
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State written by Joseph R. Strayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521098328
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Hegel's Theory of the Modern State written by Shlomo Avineri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-01-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents an overall view of Hegel through his philosophical, political and personal ideas.
Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134761988
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Modern State written by Christopher Pierson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Erika Cudworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Modern State written by Erika Cudworth and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to a wide range of theoretical perspectives on the modern state and a comprehensive overview of modern state theory.
Author : Harold Joseph Laski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Authority in the Modern State written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is some sort the sequel to a book on the problem of sovereignty which I published in March, 1917."--Preface.
