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The Sociology of the State
Engelsk Paperback
The Sociology of the State
Engelsk Paperback

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Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned to jurists and political scientists, the authors lay the foundations for a strikingly original theory of the birth and subsequent diffusion of the state. The book opens with a review of the principal evolutionary theories concerning the origin of the institution proposed by such thinkers as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Rejecting these views, the authors set forward and defend their thesis that the state was an "invention" rather than a necessary consequence of any other process. Once invented, the state was disseminated outside its Western European birthplace either through imposition or imitation. The study concludes with concrete analyses of the differences in actual state institutions in France, Prussia, Great Britain, the United States, and Switzerland.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
182
ISBN-13:
9780226035499
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226035492
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 1983
Længde:
1mm
Bredde:
14mm
Højde:
22mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 1983
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