The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control

The Many Hands of the State: Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
ISBN-10
131684188X
ISBN-13
9781316841884
Category
Political Science
Language
English
Published
2017-02-27
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Ann Shola Orloff, Kimberly J. Morgan

Description

The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and theorizing of states has become dispersed and disjointed. This book aims to bridge some of the many gaps between scholarly endeavors, bringing together scholars from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives who study states and empires. The book offers not only a sample of cutting-edge research that can serve as models and directions for future work, but an original conceptualization and theorization of states, their origins and evolution, and their effects.

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