State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
by Joel Samuel Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Joel S. Migdal is Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington.
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Atul Kohli is the David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and a Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He has edited and authored numerous books including The State and Poverty in India (1987), Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (1991), and State-Directed Development: Political Power and show more Industrialization in the Global Periphery (2004). show less
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- State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Economics
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- 306.2 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Culture and institutions Political institutions
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- JF60 .S73 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration Political institutions and public administration General. Comparative government
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