Book Description
This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.
Author : Robert Hislope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521765161
This accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh, state-centered perspective on the fundamentals of political science.
Author : William Franklin Willoughby
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108427782
Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.
Author : Sven Steinmo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139490370
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 : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : 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 : William Franklin Willoughby
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : James Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Robert Morrison MacIver
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : R. M. Maciver
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1473386357
A fascinating study of the modern state as a collection of associations and a tool that has to be given power by the people but musty follow checks and balances put in place. A relevant text when written and still relevant in this day.
Author : Stephen W. Sawyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0226833399
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.