Disciplining the State
Title | Disciplining the State PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia M. Thornton |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power.
Disciplining the Poor
Title | Disciplining the Poor PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Soss |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2011-11-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226768767 |
This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.
States of Discipline
Title | States of Discipline PDF eBook |
Author | Cemal Burak Tansel |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2017-02-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1783486201 |
Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world. What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? How does neoliberalism effectively reproduce itself in the face of popular opposition? States of Discipline offers an answer to these questions by highlighting the ways in which today’s neoliberalism reinforces and relies upon coercive practices that marginalize, discipline and control social groups. Such practices range from the development of market-oriented policies through legal and administrative reforms at the local and national-level, to the coercive apparatuses of the state that repress the social forces that oppose various aspects of neoliberalization. The book argues that these practices are built on the pre-existing infrastructure of neoliberal governance, which strive towards limiting the spaces of popular resistance through a set of administrative, legal and coercive mechanisms. Exploring a range of case studies from across the world, the book uses ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ as a conceptual prism to shed light on the institutionalization and employment of state practices that invalidate public input and silence popular resistance.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Science
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Political Science PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Goodin |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 1558 |
Release | 2011-07-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191619795 |
Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology. Sixty-seven of the top political scientists worldwide survey recent developments in those fields and provide penetrating introductions to exciting new fields of study. Following in the footsteps of the New Handbook of Political Science edited by Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann a decade before, this Oxford Handbook will become an indispensable guide to the scope and methods of political science as a whole. It will serve as the reference book of record for political scientists and for those following their work for years to come.
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Pages | 317 |
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ISBN | 0674976207 |
English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future
Title | English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future PDF eBook |
Author | N. Gildea |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2014-11-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1137478055 |
An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies.
Discipline and Punish
Title | Discipline and Punish PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307819299 |
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.