Research Catalog

Title

Bringing the state back in / edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol.

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Additional Authors

• Evans, Peter B., 1944-
• Rueschemeyer, Dietrich
• Skocpol, Theda
• Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures
• Joint Committee on Latin American Studies
• Joint Committee on Western Europe

Description

x, 390 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• État
• Staat (politicologie)
• Estado, El > Discursos, ensayos, conferencias
• Sciences de la politique
• Policy sciences
• Overheidsbeleid
• State, The
• Kapitalisme
• State - Sociological perspectives

Note

• Papers from a conference held at Mount Kisco, N.Y., Feb. 1982, sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, and the Joint Committee on Western European Studies of the Social Science Research Council.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction: Bringing the state back in : strategies of analysis in current research / Theda Skocpol -- pt. 1. States as promoters of economic development and social redistribution: The state and economic transformation : toward an analysis of the conditions underlying effective intervention / Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Peter B. Evans. The state and Taiwan's economic development / Alice H. Amsden. State structures and the possibilities of "Keynesian" responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States / Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpl -- pt. 2. States and transnational relations: War making and state making as organized crime / Charles Tilly. Transnational linkages and the economic role of the state : an analysis of developing and industrialized nations in the post-World War II period / Peter B. Evans. Small nations in an open international economy : the converging balance of state and society in Switzerland and Austria / Peter Katzenstein -- pt. 3. States and the patterning of social conflicts: Working-class formation and the state : nineteenth-century England in American perspective / Ira Katznelson. Hegemony and religious conflict : British imperial control and political cleavages in Yorubaland / David D. Laitin. State power and strength of civil society in the southern cone of Latin America / Alfred Stepan -- Conclusion: On the road toward a more adequate understanding of the state / Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol.

ISBN

• 0521307864
• 9780521307864
• 0521313139 (pbk.)
• 9780521313131 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 85004703
• 99934792941

OCLC

• 11785182
• ocm11785182
• SCSB-2432632

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