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STATE POWER AND SOCIAL FORCES
DOMINATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE THIRD WORLD |
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Joel Samuel Migdal (Editor), Atul Kohli (Editor), Vivienne Shue (Editor) |
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0521467349 |
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9780521467346 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
Pages: |
348 |
Description: |
This is a 1994 collection of scholarly essays on state, society and politics in the Third World. |
Synopsis: |
This eminently readable 1994 collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practised in the past, and how it must be refined for the future. The contributors go beyond the previously articulated 'bringing the state back in' model to offer their own 'state-in-society' approach. They argue that states, which should be disaggregated for meaningful comparative study, are best analysed as parts of societies. States may help mould, but are also continually moulded by, the societies within which they are embedded. States' capacities, further, will vary depending on their ties to other social forces. And other social forces will be capable of being mobilised into political contention only under certain conditions. Political contention pitting states against other social forces may sometimes be mutually enfeebling, but at other times, mutually empowering. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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