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Author Migdal, Joel S.

Title State in society : studying how states and societies transform and constitute one another / Joel S. Migdal.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
Contents Part I: Introduction -- State-in-society approach: a new definition of the state and transcending the narrowly constructed world of rigor -- Part II: Rethinking social and political change -- Model of state-society relations -- Strong states, weak states: power and accommodation -- Part III: A process-oriented approach: constituting states and societies -- Anthropology of the state: struggles for domination -- Why do so many states stay intact? -- Part IV: Linking micro- and macro-level change -- Individual change in the midst of social and political change -- Part V: Studying the state -- Studying the politics of development and change: the state of the art -- Studying the state.
Summary "The essays in this book trace the development of Joel S. Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. His process-oriented analysis illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change."--Jacket.
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Subject State, The.
State, The.
Social control.
Social control.
Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Migdal, Joel S. State in society. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 052179286X 0521797063 (DLC) 2001025468 (OCoLC)46366286
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