State Power and Social Forces - Domination and Transformation in the Third World (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Release date:	August 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Joel Samuel Migdal • Atul Kohli • Vivienne Shue
Dimensions:	227 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	348
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-46734-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
LSN:	0-521-46734-9
Barcode:	9780521467346

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