The Nature and Development of the Modern State

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 The Modern State......Page 16
What is the State?......Page 17
Perspectives on the Role of the State......Page 23
State Autonomy and Interdependence......Page 27
State Capacity......Page 37
The Role of Power......Page 39
2 The Ancient State......Page 48
The Ancient City-State......Page 50
The Ancient Empires......Page 62
The Ancient State and Institutional Interdependence......Page 73
The Ancient State......Page 83
3 The Feudal and Early Modern State......Page 88
The Feudal System......Page 89
The Consolidation and Centralization of Administrative Power......Page 95
Absolutism and Constitutionalism......Page 112
Institutional Interdependence?......Page 119
4 The State, Capitalism and Industrialization......Page 130
The State and Industrialism......Page 132
The ‘Late Developers’......Page 139
Industrialization and the Development of State Infrastructure......Page 142
The Social Embedding of the State......Page 154
5 The Western State and the Outside World......Page 164
War and the State......Page 167
National Identity......Page 173
The Wider World......Page 175
The Asian State......Page 184
The Uniqueness of the Western State?......Page 200
Colonial Globalization?......Page 206
Welfare Capitalism......Page 209
The Communist Challenge......Page 225
Capitalist Success, Communist Failure?......Page 237
No Third Way......Page 239
7 State Capacity in a Globalized World......Page 241
Economic Globalization......Page 242
Political Globalization......Page 245
Cultural/Ideological Globalization......Page 249
The Limits of Globalization......Page 254
The State and Globalization......Page 261
The Longue Durée of the State......Page 270
Notes and References......Page 272
C......Page 312
G......Page 313
M......Page 314
R......Page 315
Z......Page 316