Bringing the State Back In / edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol.
Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, alth...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Bringing the Statle Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research; From society-centered theories to a renewed interest in states; The revival of a continental european perspective?; The Autonomy and Capacity of States; States as actors; State autonomy in constitutional polities; Are state actions "Rational"?; Can states achieve their goals?; State capacities to pursue specific kinds of policies; States in relation to socioeconomic settings; States and patterns of politics.
- Comparative studies of state structures and politics in industrial-capitalist democraciesStates and the political capacities of social classes; Conclusion; Notes; Part I. States as Promoters of Economic Development and Social Redistribution; 2. The State and Economic Transformation: Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Intervention; An outline of the approach; State structure and the capacity to intervene; Constructing bureaucratic machinery; Organizational capacity and distribution policies; Centralization and decentralization; State-owned enterprises.
- State structure: Implications and conclusionsState action and class relations; Conditions leading to greater autonomy; Autonomy and distribution; Conclusions; Appendix:; A Note on the character of target social relations; Notes; 3. The State and Taiwan's Economic Development; The colonial heritage4; The nature of the guomindang state; Agriculture; Industrialization; Foreign aid, foreign capital, and state enterprises; Exploiting the world market; Economic growth and the changing nature of the state; Notes.
- 4. State Structures and the Possibilities for "Keynesian" Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United StatesExplaining the variation in national responses to the depression; Economic conditions and national responses; The "working-Class-Strength" approach to modern welfare states; Sectoral coalitions and links to the international economy; The role of keynes's general theory; States structures and policy developments; Social policy legacies and party orientations; State structures, economic experts, and policy innovations.
- The U.S. state structure and the limits of america's new eealThe two-track strategy of the early new deal; Possibilities for social keynesianism in the later new deal; The obstacles to social keynesianism in the united states; Conclusion; Notes; Part II. States and Transnational Relations; 5. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime; Warning; Double-edged protection; Violence and government; Protection as business; History talks; What do states do?; How states formed; War as international relations; Notes; Bibliography.