The Modern State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modern State write by Christopher Pierson. This book was released on 2004-07-31. The Modern State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Development of the Modern State
The Development of the Modern State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of the Modern State write by Gianfranco Poggi. This book was released on 1978. The Development of the Modern State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Comparative Politics write by Robert Hislope. This book was released on 2012-03-26. Introduction to Comparative Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.
Political Economy in the Modern State
Political Economy in the Modern State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Economy in the Modern State write by Harold A. Innis. This book was released on 2018-11-23. Political Economy in the Modern State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Demos Assembled
Demos Assembled - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demos Assembled write by Stephen W. Sawyer. This book was released on 2024-06-19. Demos Assembled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century. Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. And in an era where our democratic institutions are rife with conflict, it’s more important now than ever to understand how our institutions came into being. Stephen W. Sawyer’s Demos Assembled provides us with a fresh, transatlantic understanding of that political order’s genesis. While the French influence on American political development is well understood, Sawyer sheds new light on the subsequent reciprocal influence that American thinkers and politicians had on the establishment of post-revolutionary regimes in France. He argues that the emergence of the stable Third Republic (1870–1940), which is typically said to have been driven by idiosyncratic internal factors, was in fact a deeply transnational, dynamic phenomenon. Sawyer’s findings reach beyond their historical moment, speaking broadly to conceptions of state formation: how contingent claims to authority, whether grounded in violence or appeals to reason and common cause, take form as stateness.
