Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered - Softcover

Aronowitz, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816632944 ISBN 13: 9780816632947

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2002

Synopsis

Analyzes the ongoing relevance of a revitalized state theory to today’s political debates.

With increasing globalization, the meaning and role of the nation-state are in flux. At the same time, state theory, which might help to explain such a trend, has fallen victim to the general decline of radical movements, particularly the crisis in Marxism. This volume seeks to enrich and complicate current political debates by bringing state theory back to the fore and assessing its relevance to the social phenomena and thought of our day. Throughout, it becomes clear that, whether confronting the challenges of postmodern and neo-institutionalist theory or the crisis of the welfare state and globalization, state theory still has great analytical and strategic value.

Contributors: Clyde W. Barrow, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Richard A. Cloward; Adriano Nervo Codato, Federal U of Paraná, Brazil; Bob Jessop, Lancaster U, UK; Andreas Kalyvas, U of Michigan; Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate U; Leo Panitch, York U; Renato Monseff Perissinotto, Federal U of Paraná, Brazil; Frances Fox Piven, CUNY; Paul Thomas, U of California, Berkeley; Constantine Tsoukalas, U of Athens.

About this title

About the Author

Stanley Aronowitz is distinguished professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Peter Bratsis is adjunct lecturer in political science at Queens College, City University of New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816632944
• ISBN 13: 9780816632947
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328