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Political Theory and the Modern State

David Held
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The article was published on 1989-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 203 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Systems theory in political science & International political economy.

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Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship

TL;DR: The frontier within: Palestinians as second-class citizens as discussed by the authors and the wages of legitimation: Zionist and non-Zionist Orthodox Jews Part II. The frontier erupts: the Intitfadas Part III. Conclusion.
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Prosaic geographies of stateness

TL;DR: The concept of prosaics, based on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, might provide a fruitful approach for studying such practices, their geographies and the geographies of state effects, and a case study of the governance of anti-social behaviour in the UK is used to show the potential application of this approach in empirical research.
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Policy and power: A conceptual framework between the 'old' and 'new' policy idioms

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework to analyse power in policy practices based on the so-called policy arrangement approach, which combines elements of the old and new policy vocabularies.
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Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology

TL;DR: The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations as discussed by the authors, and a comprehensive analysis of this problem is presented in 2006 by Colin Wight, who deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories.
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Producing Social Capital National Social Movements and Civil Society

TL;DR: In this article, the conceptual treatment of national social movement organizations (SMOs) in current debates over civil society and the decline of social capital in the United States is analyzed, and it is argued that national SMOs play a critical role in civil society by providing an infrastructure for collective action, facilitating the development of mediated collective identities that link otherwise marginalized members of society, and shaping public discourse and debate.