State Power And Social Forces

Author : Joel Samuel Migdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467346
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Power and Social Forces written by Joel Samuel Migdal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Morten Ougaard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403943990
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Globalization written by Morten Ougaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morten Ougaard provides a new and distinct theoretical perspective to the analysis of the globalization of politics. The book analyzes global governance as the partial and uneven globalization of different aspects of statehood. It focuses on the institutional infrastructure, highlighting the role of the G7/OECD nexus in providing strategic leadership; discusses an emerging global function of societal persistence or public goods; governance and relations of power between social forces; and finally it discusses American hegemonic leadership in the light of the dual power/persistence perspective.

Author : Robert W. Cox
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231058087
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Production, Power, and World Order written by Robert W. Cox and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the power relations in societies and in world politics from the perspective of power relations in production.

Author : Robert W. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583678
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to World Order written by Robert W. Cox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Cox's writings have had a profound influence on recent developments in thinking in world politics and political economy in many countries. This book brings together for the first time his most important essays, grouped around the theme of world order. The volume is divided into sections dealing respectively with theory; with the application of Cox's approach to recent changes in world political economy; and with multilateralism and the problem of global governance. The book also includes a critical review of Cox's work by Timothy Sinclair, and an essay by Cox tracing his own intellectual journey. This volume will be an essential guide to Robert Cox's critical approach to world politics for students and teachers of international relations, international political economy, and international organisation.

Author : Raul Zibechi
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849350116
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispersing Power written by Raul Zibechi and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building power beyond the state.

Author : Joel S. Migdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521797061
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State in Society written by Joel S. Migdal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter L. Callero
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442217456
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Individualism written by Peter L. Callero and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition forthcoming in time for fall 2017! The Myth of Individualism offers a concise introduction to sociology and sociological thinking. Drawing upon personal stories, historical events, and sociological research, Callero shows how powerful social forces shape individual lives in subtle but compelling ways.

Author : A. M. Simons
Publisher : Adler Press
ISBN 13 : 1406770418
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Forces in American History written by A. M. Simons and published by Adler Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOCIAL FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO MY WIFE MAY WOOD SIMONS WHOSE CONTINUOUS COOPERATION AND ADVICE AT ALL STAGES OB THIS WORK MIGHT WELL ENTITLE HER TO BE NAMED AS CO-AUTHOR PREFACE THAT political struggles are based upon economic interests is to-day disputed by few students of society. The attempt has been made in this work to trace the various interests that have arisen and struggled in each social stage and to determine the influence exercised by these contending interests in the creation of social insti tutions. Back of every political party there has always stood a group or class which expected to profit by the activity and the success of that party. When any party has at tained to power, it has been because it has tried to estab lish institutions or to modify existing ones in accord with its interests. Changes in the industrial basis of society inven tions, new processes, and combinations and methods of producing and distributing goods create new interests with new social classes to represent them. These im provements in the technique of production are the dy namic element that brings about what we call progress in society. In this work I have sought to begin at the origin of each line of social progress. I have first endeavored to de scribe the steps in mechanical progress, then the social classes brought into prominence by the mechanical changes, then the struggle by which these new classes sought to gain social power, and, finally, the institutions vii viii PREFACE which were created or the alterations made in existing institutions as a consequence of the struggle, or as a result of the victory of a new class. It has seemed to me that these underlying social forces are of more importance than the individuals that were forced to the front in the process of these struggles, or even than the laws that were established to record the results of the conflict. In short, I have tried to describe the dynamics of history rather than to record the ac complished facts, to answer the question, Why did it happen as well as, What happened An inquiry into causes is manifestly a greater task than the recording of accomplished facts. It is certain that I have made some mistakes, probably a great many, in analyzing the underlying forces of so complex a thing as American social development. The finding of such mis takes will prove nothing as to the method save that the leisure of ten very busy years in the life of one individual is all too short a time in which to trace to their origin the multitude of forces that have been operating in Amer ican history. This work has been the more difficult since only a few, historians, and these only in recent years, have given any attention to this viewpoint. It was, therefore, necessary for me to spend much time in the study of original documents, the newspapers, magazines, and pamphlet literature of each, period. In these, rather than in the musty documents of state, do we find history in the making Here we can see the dash of contending interests before they are crystallized into laws and in stitutions. I have not sought after new or bizarre facts. I have PREFACE sought rather to understand the reasons for those whose existence is undisputed. Occasionally I have found things which seemed to be neglected in the familiar his tories and have stated these. In my references, also, I have tried to name the most accessible works rather than to multiply references and strain after scholastic effect with many citations of seldom used and almost inaccessible material. In this connection it should be stated that most of this work was written before the publication of the Docu mentary History of American Society, edited by Dr. R. T. Ely and John R. Commons of the University of Wisconsin. Otherwise I should have made more fre quent reference to its pages...

Author : Ismail K. White
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691199515
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steadfast Democrats written by Ismail K. White and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the last half century, there has been a marked increase in ideological conservatism among African Americans, with nearly 50% of black Americans describing themselves as conservative in the 2000s, as compared to 10% in the 1970s. Support for redistributive initiatives has likewise declined. And yet, even as black Americans shift rightward on ideological and issue positions, Democratic Party identification has stayed remarkable steady, holding at 80% to 90%. It is this puzzle that White and Laird look to address in this new book: Why has ideological change failed to push black Americans into the Republican party? Most explanations for homogeneity have focused on individual dispositions, including ideology and group identity. White and Laird acknowledge that these are important, but point out that such explanations fail to account for continued political unity even in the face of individual ideological change and of individual incentives to defect from this common group behavior. The authors offer instead, or in addition, a behavioral explanation, arguing that black Americans maintain political unity through the establishment and enforcement of well-defined group expectations of black political behavior through a process they term racialized social constraint. The authors explain how black political norms came about, and what these norms are, then show (with the help of survey data and lab-in-field experiments) how such norms are enforced, and where this enforcement happens (through a focus on black institutions). They conclude by exploring the implications of the theory for electoral strategy, as well as explaining how this framework can be used to understand other voter communities"--

Author : Davita Silfen Glasberg
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498542492
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of State Theory written by Davita Silfen Glasberg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages broadly with the tradition of state theory, arguing that contemporary state theory must account for multiple sites of power. The authors build on and expand traditional state theory offering tools to rethink how we analyze the state.