Bibliograph

State power and social forces, domination and transformation in the Third World, edited by Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue

Type

Label

State power and social forces, domination and transformation in the Third World, edited by Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

State power and social forces

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

817921800

Responsibility statement

edited by Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, Vivienne Shue

Series statement

Cambridge studies in comparative politicsCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

domination and transformation in the Third World

Summary

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 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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The state in society : an approach to struggles for domination / Joel S. Migdal -- Traditional politics against state transformation in Brazil / Frances Hagopian -- State power and social organization in China / Vivienne Shue -- Centralization and powerlessness : India's democracy in a comparative perspective / Atul Kohli -- States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa : the enduring contradictions of power / Catherine Boone -- Labor divided : sources of state formation in modern China / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Business conflict, collaboration, and privilege in interwar Egypt / Robert Vitalis -- A time and a place for the nonstate : social change in the Ottoman Empire during the "long nineteenth century" / Reşat Kasaba -- Peasant-state relations in postcolonial Africa : patterns of engagement and disengagement / Michael Bratton -- Engaging the state : associational life in sub-Saharan Africa / Naomi Chazan -- State power and social forces : on political contention and accommodation in the Third World / Atul Kohli and Vivienne Shue

resource.variantTitle

State Power & Social Forces

Contributor

Subject

Content