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State (polity)
About: State (polity) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 36954 publications have been published within this topic receiving 719822 citations. The topic is also known as: state (polity).
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01 Jun 2006
TL;DR: McGuinn et al. as discussed by the authors provided the first balanced, in-depth analysis of how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law and the controversies surrounding its implementation, and forthcoming debates over its reauthorization.
Abstract: Education is intimately connected to many of the most important and contentious questions confronting American society, from race to jobs to taxes, and the competitive pressures of the global economy have only enhanced its significance. Elementary and secondary schooling has long been the province of state and local governments; but when George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it signaled an unprecedented expansion of the federal role in public education. This book provides the first balanced, in-depth analysis of how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. Patrick McGuinn, a political scientist with hands-on experience in secondary education, explains how this happened despite the country's long history of decentralized school governance and the longstanding opposition of both liberals and conservatives to an active, reform-oriented federal role in schools. His book provides the essential political context for understanding NCLB, the controversies surrounding its implementation, and forthcoming debates over its reauthorization. Using education as a case study of national policymaking, McGuinn also shows how the struggle to define the federal role in school reform took center stage in debates over the appropriate role of the government in promoting opportunity and social welfare. He places the evolution of the federal role in schools within the context of broader institutional, ideological, and political changes that have swept the nation since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, chronicles the concerns raised by the 1983 report "A Nation at Risk", and shows how education became a major campaign issue for both parties in the 1990s. McGuinn argues that the emergence of swing issues such as education can facilitate major policy change even as they influence the direction of wider political debates and partisan conflict. McGuinn traces the Republican shift from seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education to embracing federal leadership in school reform, then details the negotiations over NCLB, the forces that shaped its final provisions, and the ways in which the law constitutes a new federal education policy regime - against which states have now begun to rebel. He argues that the expanded federal role in schools is probably here to stay and that only by understanding the unique dynamics of national education politics will reformers be able to craft a more effective national role in school reform.
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TL;DR: The authors examine the implications of deportation for how citizenship is understood and conceptualised in liberal states. But they draw on the UK to show that, as a particularly definitive and symbolically resonant way of dividing citizens from (putative) strangers, deportation is liable to generate conflicts amongst citizens and between citizens and the state over the question of who is part of the normative community of members.
Abstract: Taking the growing use of deportation by many states, including the UK and the USA, as its point of departure, this article examines the implications of deportation for how citizenship is understood and conceptualised in liberal states. We follow scholars such as Walters (2002, Citizenship studies, 6 (2), 265–292) and Nicholas De Genova (2010, The deportation regime: sovereignty, space and freedom of movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 33–65) in seeing deportation as a practice that is ‘constitutive of citizenship’, one that reaffirms the formal and normative boundaries of membership in an international system of nominally independent states. However, we draw on the UK to show that, as a particularly definitive and symbolically resonant way of dividing citizens from (putative) strangers, deportation is liable to generate conflicts amongst citizens and between citizens and the state over the question of who is part of the normative community of members. Such conflict is, we show, a key and everyda...
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: Coates et al. as mentioned in this paper presented Paradigms of Explanation for measuring Capitalism: Output, Growth and Economic Policy, and the United States since 1870: A Quantitative Economic Analysis Incorporating Institutional Factors.
Abstract: Introduction Paradigms of Explanation D.Coates PART 1: THE APPROACHES EXPLAINED Measuring Capitalism: Output, Growth and Economic Policy M.Kitson Beyond Bone Structure: Historical Institutionalism and the Style of Economic Growth C.J.Martin Contesting the 'New Capitalism' G.Albo PART 2: THE APPROACHES APPLIED Economic Growth and the United States since 1870: A Quantitative Economic Analysis Incorporating Institutional Factors S.Broadberry Two Can Play at That Game...Or Can They? Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Institutionalism C.Hay The Politics of a Miracle: Class Interests and State Power in Korean Developmentalism V.Chibber Euro-Capitalism and American Empire L.Panitch & S.Gindin PART 3: THE APPROACHES EVALUATED Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism J.Pontusson The United States in the Post-War Global Political Economy: Another Look at the Brenner Debate M.Konings The Capitalist Economy 1945-2000: A Reply to Konings, and to Panitch and Gindin R.Brenner Disparate Models, Desperate Measures: The Convergence of Limits T.Fast Conclusion List of Contributors Bibliography
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12 Jun 2009TL;DR: The authors presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics, drawing on a range of thinkers including Agamben, Derrida and Foucault, highlighting the necessity of a more pluralized and radicalised view of what borders are and where they might be found.
Abstract: This book presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the border of the state is being reconfigured in contemporary political life.
The author uses critical resources found in poststructuralist thought to think in new ways about the relationship between borders, security and sovereign power, drawing on a range of thinkers including Agamben, Derrida and Foucault. He highlights the necessity of a more pluralized and radicalised view of what borders are and where they might be found and uses the problem of borders to critically explore the innovations and limits of poststructuralist scholarship.
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TL;DR: The experiences of two programs aimed at poor rural women in India suggest that postcolonial contexts might give us reason to reconsider commonly accepted characterizations of neoliberal states as discussed by the authors, and they were surprisingly different ideologies and goals (the earlier being a welfare program that provided tangible services and assets and the later one an empowerment program aimed at helping rural women to become autonomous rather than dependent clients of the state waiting for the redistribution of resources).
Abstract: The experiences of two programs aimed at poor rural women in India suggest that postcolonial contexts might give us reason to reconsider commonly accepted characterizations of neoliberal states. An anthropological approach to the state differs from that of other disciplines by according centrality to the meanings of the everyday practices of bureaucracies and their relation to representations of the state. Such a perspective is strengthened when it integrates those meanings with political economic, social structural, and institutional approaches. Although the two programs examined here originated in different time periods (one before and the other after neoliberal reforms) and embodied very different ideologies and goals (the earlier one being a welfare program that provided tangible services and assets and the later one an empowerment program aimed at helping rural women to become autonomous rather than dependent clients of the state waiting for the redistribution of resources), they were surprisingly al...
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