State and Society in International Relations
Title | State and Society in International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Banks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | International relations |
ISBN |
State in Society
Title | State in Society PDF eBook |
Author | Joel S. Migdal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2001-08-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521797061 |
The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines but present a new model for understanding state-society relations. It allies parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determines how societies and states create and maintain distinct ways of structuring day-to-day life, the nature of the rules that govern people's behavior, whom they benefit and whom they disadvantage, which sorts of elements unite people and which divide them, and what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.
An Introduction to Politics, State and Society
Title | An Introduction to Politics, State and Society PDF eBook |
Author | James W McAuley |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2003-06-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803979321 |
This major new textbook will equip students with a complete understanding of contemporary politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today. Key underlying themes include: The differences between traditional and alternative sites of power and what we mean by political the relationships between politics, society and how individuals become and remain engaged with politics the rapid transformations in contemporary social structures and their impact on social and political life the role of human agency and its significance to social and political action and movements contemporary cultural and social dislocations and their impact on some of the major contested areas of political life today. Key features include: Key concepts and issues Key theorists and writers Discussion questions Comprehensive and accessible, An Introduction to Politics, State & Society is an essential text for all undergraduate students of politics, the contemporary state, power and political sociology.
International Society and the De Facto State
Title | International Society and the De Facto State PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Pegg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-12-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000708578 |
Originally published in 1998, International Society and the De Facto Society explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations. The de facto state is almost the inverse of what Robert Jackson has termed the ‘quasi-state’. The quasi-state has an ambassador, a flag, and a seat at the United Nations, but it does not function positively as a viable governing entity. Its limitations though, do not detract from sovereign legitimacy. The de facto state, on the other hand, lacks legitimacy yet effectively controls a given territorial area and provides governmental services to a specific population. The book engages in a birth, life, and death or evolution examination of the de facto state.
Strong Societies and Weak States
Title | Strong Societies and Weak States PDF eBook |
Author | Joel S. Migdal |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1988-11-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780691010731 |
Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers a fresh approach to the study of state-society relations and to the possibilities for economic and political reforms in the third world. In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, state institutions have established a permanent presence among the populations of even the most remote villages. A close look at the performance of these agencies, however, reveals that often they operate on principles radically different from those conceived by their founders and creators in the capital city. Migdal proposes an answer to this paradox: a model of state-society relations that highlights the state's struggle with other social organizations and a theory that explains the differing abilities of states to predominate in those struggles.
Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society
Title | Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Jay Friedman |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780791463345 |
Examines the growing power of nongovernmental organizations by looking at UN World Conferences.
The Reason of States
Title | The Reason of States PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Donelan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2015-10-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317362217 |
Originally published in 1978, this book examines how the states-system grew over generations, first within Europe, then world wide and how the idea of the state came to monopolise our vision of the world. It discusses the grounds for the division of humanity into separate states in reason and history and whether or not we can use terms like ‘obligation’ and ‘justice’ in seeking to understand our relations with people of other states.