Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 375 pages)
ISBN:
9780230366459
Content:
This major work provides a broad-ranging assessment of classical and contemporary theories of the state, focusing primarily on the democratic state. As well as outlining theories used to understand the state, it examines critiques of modern states that have emerged from feminism, environmentalism, neo-conservatism and post-modernism.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 The State and Liberal Democratic Politics -- Defining the state -- Theories of state formation -- The history of state formation -- Liberal democracy -- Conclusion -- Part I: The Classical Theories -- 2 Pluralism -- Origins and core assumptions: the roots of pluralism -- Society and politics -- Government and policy making -- Crisis and change in pluralist thought -- 3 Elite Theory -- The origins of elite theory -- Society and politics -- Government and policy making -- Conclusions -- 4 Marxism -- Origins and core ideas -- Society and politics -- Government and policy making -- Conclusions -- 5 Market Liberalism -- Origins and core ideas -- Society and politics -- Government and policy-making -- Agendas and political change -- Conclusions -- Part II: Pluralist Transformations -- 6 From Neo-pluralism to Governance -- The development of pluralism -- Society and politics -- Policy making: from government to governance -- Agendas and political change -- Conclusion -- 7 Competitive Electoral Politics -- Society and politics: voters, parties, systems -- Government and policy making: legislative politics -- Agendas and political change -- Conclusion -- 8 Identity Politics -- Origins and core assumptions -- Society and politics -- Government and policy making -- Agendas and political change -- Conclusion -- Part III: Critiques of the State -- 9 Democratic Critique and Renewal -- The democratic deficit in liberal democracies -- Participatory democracy and civic republicanism -- Deliberative democracy -- Conclusion -- 10 Feminist Theory of the State -- Origins and core assumptions -- Society and politics -- The feminist critique of government and policy making -- Agendas and political change -- Conclusion -- 11 Environmental Theory of the State -- Origins and core assumptions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-361) and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230542860
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230542877
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dryzek, John S., 1953 - Theories of the democratic state Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 ISBN 0230542875
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0230542867
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230542877
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230542860
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Demokratie
;
Staat
;
Politische Theorie
Author information:
Dryzek, John S. 1953-
