The State, Democracy and Globalization

by King, Roger; Kendall, Gavin

• ISBN13: 9780333969120
• ISBN10: 033396912X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-04
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

The state has long been the key institution of political life but in recent years it has become the focus of increasingly heated controversy. While some have announced its impending demise in an age of globalization and supranational governance, others have proclaimed its ultimate triumph -- at least in its dominant liberal democratic form -- in the post cold war world. Despite the extensive debate there have been surprisingly few attempts to provide an integrated account of the state in the contemporary world. Roger King and Gavin Kendall's new text is designed to fill the gap and provide an accessible but informed introduction to the modern state. The authors look at the historical origins of the modern state, its changing relationship with the economy and democracy, and the theories that seek to explain its development and character.

Author Biography

Roger King is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Gavin Kendall is an Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Why Study the State?	1	(19)
Challenges to the nation state	3	(3)
The market and the state	6	(2)
Some key terms	8	(6)
Legitimacy	14	(4)
The following chapters	18	(2)
The Development of the Modern Nation State	20	(38)
Historical origins	21	(3)
The beginnings of modern forms of rule	24	(4)
The sources of the modern state	28	(5)
Inter-state relations	33	(1)
War, revolution, ideas and administration	34	(2)
The origins of liberalism and capitalism	36	(3)
The development of liberalism and capitalism	39	(9)
The state outside west Europe	48	(7)
Conclusion	55	(3)
Classical Theories of the State	58	(25)
Marxism	59	(13)
Elite theory	72	(2)
Weber	74	(3)
Theories of the state as a beneficial social instrument	77	(5)
Conclusion: classical state theories reviewed	82	(1)
Democracy and the State	83	(28)
The first long wave of democracy	85	(5)
The social origins of democracy	90	(5)
Class and ideology	95	(2)
The requisites for democracy	97	(4)
Second and third waves	101	(6)
Post-communism	107	(3)
Conclusion	110	(1)
The Interventionist State and its Critics	111	(26)
The Keynesian welfare state	113	(4)
The Cold War convergence thesis of East and West	117	(2)
The post-1945 state in the West	119	(3)
New Right	122	(5)
Social democracy and the Third Way	127	(2)
Networks and governance	129	(2)
The regulatory state	131	(6)
Globalization	137	(29)
What is globalization?	139	(10)
`Geographical' interpretations	149	(2)
The impact of globalization	151	(2)
Globalization: the end of the nation state?	153	(4)
Globalization: something old or something new?	157	(5)
Globalization and national policies	162	(1)
Social/cultural change	163	(1)
Can globalization be rolled back?	164	(2)
Suprastate Governance	166	(20)
Realism	167	(2)
International regimes	169	(2)
Global regulation	171	(8)
Human rights, international law and national sovereignty	179	(2)
Cosmopolitan law	181	(1)
Global democracy	182	(4)
The Liberal State	186	(30)
Precursors to liberalism: from Machiavelli to raison d'etat	187	(2)
Police	189	(1)
Information-gathering and the emergence of `population'	190	(2)
Liberalism as a governmentality	192	(1)
Competing rationalities of government	193	(2)
Forms of self: liberal techniques of government	195	(1)
Expertise: governing through social life	196	(2)
Towards neo-liberalism	198	(1)
What is neo-liberalism?	199	(3)
The post-war Keynesian experiment	202	(1)
The Ordoliberalen and the Chicago School	203	(3)
Hayek	206	(1)
Neo-liberalism in action	207	(4)
Neo-liberalism and the abrogation of national responsibility	211	(2)
Conclusion	213	(3)
Power, Domination, Culture and Sociality	216	(23)
Machiavelli and anti-Machiavellianism	217	(2)
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: the sovereign and power	219	(2)
Marxist conceptions of power	221	(1)
Marxism, ideology and power	222	(2)
Weber: power, authority and domination	224	(2)
Pluralist conceptions of power	226	(2)
Elite theories of power	228	(1)
Foucault and power	229	(3)
Bruno Latour: actors and power	232	(2)
From power to power: analysing sexuality	234	(2)
Conclusion	236	(3)
Postscript: The Future of the State	239	(3)
Bibliography	242	(14)
Index	256