political science

1 Were We Right all Along? My concern has been to identify and describe some of the many distinctive traditions in the study o ...

attempts... serve only to demonstrate... the inherent futility of the enterprise.’’ He holds a ‘‘determinedly old-fashioned’’ vi ...

If institutions are to be understood through the beliefs and actions of individuals located in traditions, then historical analy ...

choice mainstream. Rather, Bates et al. should be seen as ‘‘deploying rational choice techniquesandanalytical strategiesin the s ...

Duverger,M. 1959 [ 1954 ].Political Parties, 2 nd rev. edn. London: Methuen. —— 1980. A new political system model: semi-preside ...

Hill,C.E. 1986 .A Bibliography of the Writings of W. A. Robson. London: London School of Economics and Political Science, Greate ...

Robson,W.A. 1928 .Justice and Administrative Law, 2 nd edn 1947 , 3 rd edn 1951. London: Macmillan. —— 1939 .The Government and ...

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coercive capacities, institutional composition and boundaries, internal operations and modes of calculation, declared aims, func ...

Building on Weber and his contemporaries, other theorists regard the essence of the state (premodern as well as modern) as the t ...

Likewise, since it is not a subject, the capitalist state does not, and indeed cannot, exercise power. Instead its powers ́ (plu ...

and the state’s continuing role in reproducing gender divisions. And yet other scholars focus on the ‘‘imagined political commun ...

the weaknesses of later Marxist state theories, both analytically and practically, and has prompted many attempts to completethe ...

democratic state based on the rule of law), then explored the typical forms of political class struggle in bourgeois democracies ...

struggle; pluralism was charged with limiting its account of competition for state power to interest groups and movements rooted ...

in terms of the state’s capacity to promote the long-term, collective interests of capital even when faced with opposition—inclu ...

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governmentality together, however, he oVers an important theoretical and empir- ical corrective to the more one-sided and/or ess ...