The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

by Leibfried, Stephan; Huber, Evelyne; Lange, Matthew; Levy, Jonah D.; Nullmeier, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780199691586
• ISBN10: 0199691584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-30
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr

Author Biography

Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Public and Social Policy, University of Bremen,Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,Matthew Lange, Associate Professor of Sociology, McGill University,Jonah D. Levy, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California Berkeley,Frank Nullmeier, Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen,John D. Stephens, Gerhard Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Stephan Leibfried is a Research Professor at the University of Bremen and at Jacobs University Bremen, who often worked as visiting professor in the US and UK. At the University of Bremen he has co-founded the Center for Social Policy Research (1988), the Collaborative Research Center on Transformations of the State (2003-2014), the Bremen International Graduate School of the Social Sciences (2007 ff.), a joint school with Jacobs University.


Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studied at the University of Zurich and received her Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern in 2010.


John D. Stephens is Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies, European Union Center of Excellence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1976) from Yale University. His main interests are comparative politics and political economy, with area foci on Europe, the Antipodes, Latin America, and the Caribbean.


Frank Nullmeier is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen and Head of the Department "Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State" at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS), University of Bremen. His work focuses on welfare state theory, social policy and political theory. His most recent work examines the transformation of democratic legitimation.


Matthew Lange is Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His work focuses on states, development, colonialism, and ethnic violence.


Jonah D. Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. He received his A.B. (1984) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1994) from MIT. His work focuses on state transformations, economic and social policy, and the politics of the affluent democracies, most notably France.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Transformations of the State, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D Stephens2. Changing Perspectives on the State, Jonah D. Levy, Stephan Leibfried, and Frank NullmeierPart 1: The Emergence of Modern States3. Varieties of State Experience, John A. Hall4. The Layered State: Pathways and Patterns of Modern Nation-State Building, Philip Manow and Daniel Ziblatt5. The Emergence of the New World States, Andrew S. Kelly and James Mahoney6. State Formation and Transformation in Africa and Asia: The Third Phase of State Expansion, Matthew Lange7. State Theory: Four Analytical Traditions, Matthias vom Hau8. Limited Statehood: A Critical Perpective, Thomas Risse9. State Transformations in Comparative Perspective, Jonah D. LevyPart II: Internationalization and the State10. Internationalization and the State: Sovereignty as the External Side of Modern Statehood, Michael Zurn and Nicole Deitelhoff11. Sovereign (In)Equality in the Evolution of the International System, Lora Anne Viola, Duncan Snidal, and Michael Zurn12. The Competition State: The Modern State in a Global Economy http://handbook.state.uni-bremen.de/redirect/?oid=Article-id-30021, Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf13. The Embedded State: The New Division of Labor in the Provision of Governance Functions, Tine Hanrieder and Bernhard Zangl14. Multilevel Governance and the State, Arjan H. Schakel, Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks15. Beyond the State? Are Transnational Regulatory Institutions Replacing the State?, Walter Mattli16. Security, Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect: Transforming the State by Reinterpreting Sovereignty, Christopher Daase17. Ambiguous Transformations: The 2007-08 International Financial Crisis and Changing Economic Roles of the State, Eric Helleiner18. Environmental Risks and the Changing Interface of Domestic and International Governance, Klaus Dingwerth and Helge JorgensPart III: Contemporary Transformations of the Core OECD-World of States19. State Transformations Among the Affluent Democracies, Jonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens, and Stephan Leibfried20. The Transformations of the Statist Model, Jonah D. Levy21. From Industrial Corporatism to the Social Investment State, Jingjing Huo and John D. Stephens22. The Changing Role of the State in Liberal Market Economies, Peter A. Hall23. ISI States Reverse Course: From Import Substitution to Open Economy, Herman Schwartz and Sebastian Etchemendy24. Welfare State Transformation: Convergence and the Rise of the Supply-Side Model, Herbert Obinger and Peter Starke25. The State and Gender Equality: From Patriarchal to Women Friendly State?, Julia S. O'Connor26. From the Positive to the Regulatory State: A Transformation in the Machinery of Governance?, Katharina Holzinger and Susanne K. Schmidt27. Migration and the Porous Boundaries of Democratic States, Rainer Baubock28. Plurinational States, Michael Keating29. The Changing Architecture of the National Security State, Andreas Busch30. Transformations of the Democratic State, Frank Nullmeier, Steffen Schneider, and Andreas HeppPart IV: Postcommunist Peculiarities? State Transformations in the Former Communist World31. The Peculiarities of Post-Communist State Development: Institutional Consolidation and Elite Competition, Anna Gryzmala-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong32. The Transformation of the State in Eastern Europe, Milada Anna Vachudova33. Resources as Constraints? Natural Resource Wealth and the Possibility of Developmental States in the Former Soviet Union, Pauline Jones Luong34. The Transformation of the Russian State, Brian D. Taylor35. China: Economic Liberalization, Adaptive Informal Institutions, and Party-State Resilience, Kellee S. TsaiPart V: State Transformations in the Non-OECD World36. States in the Global South: Transformations, Trends, and Diversity, Matthew Lange37. Human Development, State Transformation and the Politics of the Developmental State, Peter Evans and Patrick Heller38. Rentier States and State Transformations, David Waldner and Benjamin Smith39. Predatory States and State Transformation, William Reno40. State Failure and State Transformation, Sven Chojnacki and Anne Menzel41. Ethnicity and State Transformation in the Global South, Matthew Lange and Klaus Schlichte42. Democratization, Grigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme B. Robertson43. Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East Asia, Evelyne Huber and Sara NiedzwieckiPart VI: Conclusion44. Conclusion: States Transforming, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John Stephens