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State (polity)
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28 Jul 2017
TL;DR: The concept of modernization has largely replaced the traditional concept of development as well as superseded more specific concepts such as industrialization and democratization as mentioned in this paper, emphasizing the multidimensionality and interrelatedness of developmental processes.
Abstract: The concept of modernization in this chapter emphasizes the multidimensionality and interre-latedness of developmental processes. It is concerned with the relationship between the growth of mass democracies and welfare state policies, since sufficient information on the growth of state bureaucracies is still largely missing for most European countries. The concept of modernization has largely replaced the traditional concept of development as well as superseded more specific concepts such as industrialization and democratization. The distinction between markets, associations, and state bureaucracies as the three main organizational sectors of society is used now to draft a sectoral model of the development of welfare states. Since the origins of the modern welfare states are closely related to the "social question" and the labor movement, differences in the strength and coherence of working class parties and trade unions are most important for explaining variations in welfare state developments.
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the development in the Global Information Economy and the Celtic Tiger, and the role of technology in the global information economy and its role in the development process.
Abstract: List of tables List of abbreviations Preface Part I. Development in the Global Information Economy: 1. Networks of development: globalization, high technology, and the Celtic Tiger 2. State developmentalisms and capitalist globalizations 3. Explaining the Celtic Tiger Part II. Software and the Celtic Tiger: 4. 'Location Nation': remaking society for foreign investment 5. Indigenous innovation and the developmental network state 6. Making global and local 7. The class politics of the global region Part III. The Politics of the Developmental Network State: 8. Institutions of the developmental network state 9. Politics and change in developmental regimes 10. Developmental bureaucratic and network states in comparative perspective 11. Futures of the network state Appendix A. Methodology of the study Bibliography Index.
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10 Feb 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic journey across states is described, with a focus on states of disentitlement and their relation to the Therapeutics of Neoliberalism.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction: An Ethnographic Journey across States Part I. In a State of Dependence 1. Limited Government: Training Women What to Need 2. Deconstructing Dependency: Needs, Rights, and the Struggle for Entitlement 3. Hybrid States and Government from a Distance Part II. In a State of Recovery 4. State Therapeutics: Training Women What to Want 5. The Empowerment Myth: Social Vulnerability as Personal Pathology 6. The Enemies Within: Fighting the Sisters and Numbing the Self Conclusion: States of Disentitlement and the Therapeutics of Neoliberalism Notes Bibliography Index
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10 Mar 2014
TL;DR: Pettit's Just Freedom as mentioned in this paper is a rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, and it advocates a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic progress.
Abstract: In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic progress. Whereas many thinkers define freedom as the absence of interference-we are left alone to do as we please-Pettit demands that in their basic life choices free persons should not even be subject to a power of interference on the part of others. This notion of freedom as non-domination offers a yardstick for gauging social and democratic progress and provides a simple, unifying standard for analyzing our most entangled political quandaries. Pettit reaffirms the ideal, already present in the Roman Republic, of a free citizenry who enjoy equal status with one another, being individually protected by a law that they together control. After sketching a fresh history of freedom, he turns to the implications of the ideal for social, democratic, and international justice. Should the state erect systems for delivering mandatory healthcare coverage to its citizens? Should voting be a citizen's only means of influencing political leaders? Are the demands of the United Nations to be heeded when they betray the sovereignty of the state? Pettit shows how these and other questions should be resolved within a civic republican perspective. Concise and elegant in its rhetoric and ultimately radical in its reimagining of our social arrangements, Just Freedom is neither a theoretical treatise nor a practical manifesto, but rather an ardent attempt to elaborate the demands of freedom and justice in our time.
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TL;DR: Mettler as discussed by the authors pointed out that during the 2009 Tea Party's 2009 rallies many signs decried the threat of government to programs actually provided by government, and pointed out the need for government to provide these services.
Abstract: Suzanne Mettler Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 163 pp During the Tea Party's 2009 rallies many signs decried the threat of government to programs actually provided by government. A...
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