Transformations of the State?

Transformations of the State?
Title Transformations of the State? PDF eBook
Author Stephan Leibfried
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 242
Release 2005-06-13
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521672382

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This volume presents an innovative view of the nation-state and its future.

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State
Title The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State PDF eBook
Author Stephan Leibfried
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 928
Release 2015-06-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0191643254

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This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a changing international environment as well as with changing domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist, liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in different areas of state intervention, from security to financial regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development. The volume makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention, its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new international and domestic challenges.

The Transformation of the State

The Transformation of the State
Title The Transformation of the State PDF eBook
Author Georg Sørensen
Publisher Red Globe Press
Pages 0
Release 2004-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0333982053

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Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State

Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
Title Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State PDF eBook
Author B. Larsson
Publisher Springer
Pages 329
Release 2012-01-25
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0230363954

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Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing transformations taking place in the Swedish welfare state.

State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism

State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism
Title State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 399
Release 2021-07-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004462260

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This volume addresses the ‘impoverishment of state theory’ over the last decades and insists on the continued salience of class analysis to the study of capitalist states – neoliberal restructuring, the political architecture of imperialism, and the potentials for democratic transformation.

State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations

State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
Title State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations PDF eBook
Author José Antonio Kelly
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 279
Release 2011-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816529205

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Amazonian indigenous peoples have preserved many aspects of their culture and cosmology while also developing complex relationships with dominant non-indigenous society. Until now, anthropological writing on Amazonian peoples has been divided between “traditional” topics like kinship, cosmology, ritual, and myth, on the one hand, and the analysis of their struggles with the nation-state on the other. What has been lacking is work that bridges these two approaches and takes into consideration the meaning of relationships with the state from an indigenous perspective. That long-standing dichotomy is challenged in this new ethnography by anthropologist José Kelly. Kelly places the study of culture and cosmology squarely within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. He explores Indian-white relations as seen through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela. With theoretical foundations in the fields of medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly sheds light on how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. The result is a symmetrical anthropology that treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of each group and its influences on the other. This book will be valuable to those studying Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development studies, and Latin America. Its new takes on theory and methodology make it ideal for classroom use.

The Politics of Green Transformations

The Politics of Green Transformations
Title The Politics of Green Transformations PDF eBook
Author Ian Scoones
Publisher Routledge
Pages 245
Release 2015-01-09
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1317601114

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Multiple ‘green transformations’ are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must take a developmental role in financing innovation and technology for green transformations. The book also highlights the role of citizens, as innovators, entrepreneurs, green consumers and members of social movements. Green transformations must be both ‘top-down’, involving elite alliances between states and business, but also ‘bottom up’, pushed by grassroots innovators and entrepreneurs, and part of wider mobilisations among civil society. The chapters in the book draw on international examples to emphasise how contexts matter in shaping pathways to sustainability Written by experts in the field, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students in environmental studies, international relations, political science, development studies, geography and anthropology, as well as policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability.