Theories of the Democratic State

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ISBN: 9780230542877 | 0230542875
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Copyright: 6/15/2009

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We live in a world governed by states. The whole of the Earth's liveable surface and all of the world's people are parcelled up between states. States' performance (or failure) and their relationships with one another are still key motors of global history. Backed by their state's capacity to raise taxes and finance debts, governments remain fundamental guarantors of markets, economic life and financial system stability in every nation.

List of Figures and Tables	p. viii
Preface	p. x
The State and Liberal Democratic Politics	p. 1
Defining the state	p. 1
Theories of state formation	p. 8
The history of state formation	p. 12
Liberal democracy	p. 18
Conclusion	p. 32
The Classical Theories
Pluralism	p. 35
Origins and core assumptions: the roots of pluralism	p. 35
Society and politics	p. 46
Government and policy making	p. 49
Crisis and change in pluralist thought	p. 52
Elite Theory	p. 57
The origins of elite theory	p. 58
Society and politics	p. 65
Government and policy making	p. 72
Conclusions	p. 76
Marxism	p. 79
Origins and core ideas	p. 80
Society and politics	p. 88
Government and policy making	p. 92
Conclusions	p. 98
Market Liberalism	p. 100
Origins and core ideas	p. 101
Society and politics	p. 108
Government and policy-making	p. 113
Agendas and political change	p. 119
Conclusions	p. 127
Pluralist Transformations
From Neo-pluralism to Governance	p. 131
The development of pluralism	p. 131
Society and politics	p. 135
Policy making: from government to governance	p. 140
Agendas and political change	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 154
Competitive Electoral Politics	p. 155
Society and politics: voters, parties, systems	p. 156
Government and policy making: legislative politics	p. 173
Agendas and political change	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 183
Identity Politics	p. 184
Origins and core assumptions	p. 185
Society and politics	p. 188
Government and policy making	p. 191
Agendas and political change	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 202
Critiques of the State
Democratic Critique and Renewal	p. 207
The democratic deficit in liberal democracies	p. 207
Participatory democracy and civic republicanism	p. 211
Deliberative democracy	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 225
Feminist Theory of the State	p. 226
Origins and core assumptions	p. 226
Society and politics	p. 232
The feminist critique of government and policy making	p. 236
Agendas and political change	p. 239
Conclusion	p. 242
Environmental Theory of the State	p. 243
Origins and core assumptions	p. 243
Society, politics and ecosystem	p. 250
The environmental critique of government and policy making	p. 256
Agendas and political change	p. 261
Conclusion	p. 267
The Conservative Reaction	p. 269
Origins and assumptions	p. 269
Society and politics	p. 271
The conservative critique of government and policy making	p. 274
Agendas and political change	p. 278
Neo-conservatism	p. 282
Conclusion	p. 286
Beyond the State
Post-modernism	p. 289
Origins and core assumptions	p. 290
Society and politics	p. 294
Government and policy making	p. 296
Agendas and political change	p. 301
Conclusion	p. 306
Globalization	p. 307
Origins and assumptions	p. 307
(International) society and politics	p. 311
Government and policy making	p. 313
Agendas and political change	p. 319
Globalization's consequences for theories of the democratic state	p. 325
Conclusion	p. 328
Current and future debates about the state	p. 329
The fate of the classical theories	p. 330
Persistent critiques and new agendas	p. 333
Liberal democracy in question	p. 334
The return of empire?	p. 336
New kinds of governance	p. 337
Conclusion	p. 338
Bibliography	p. 340
Index	p. 362
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