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The State as Cultural Practice (Hardcover)
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The State as Cultural Practice (Hardcover)
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The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of
the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political
science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most
significant present-day strand in both American and British
political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the
state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism.
Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis,
ethnographic and historical methods, and a decentred approach that
rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the
idea of politics as cultural practice. The book has three aims: to
develop an anti-foundational theory of the state; to develop a new
research agenda around the topics of rule, rationalities, and
resistance; and by exploring empirical shifts and debates about the
changing nature of the state to show how anti-foundational theory
leads us to see them differently.
Bevir and Rhodes argue for the idea of 'the stateless state' or the
state as meaning-in-action. So, the state is neither monolithic nor
a causal agent. It consists solely of the contingent actions of
specific individuals; of diverse beliefs about the public sphere,
about authority and power, which are constructed differently in
contending traditions. Continuity and change are products of people
inheriting traditions and modifying them in response to dilemmas. A
decentred approach explores the limits to the state and seeks to
develop a more diverse view of state authority and its exercise. In
short, political scientists need to bring people back in to the
study of the state.
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