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State (polity)
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TL;DR: Gurr and King as mentioned in this paper argue that the importance of state action for cities has been under-appreciated by both the left and the right, and they argue that policies of the local and national state have a major impact on urban well-being.
Abstract: Many of the oldest and largest Western cities today are undergoing massive economic decline. The State and the City deals with a key issue in the political economy of cities—the role of the state. Ted Robert Gurr and Desmond S. King argue that theoreticians from both the left and the right have underestimated the significance of state action for cities. Grounding theory in empirical evidence, they argue that policies of the local and national state have a major impact on urban well-being. Gurr and King's analysis assumes modern states have their own interests, institutional momentum, and the capacity to act with relative autonomy. Their historically based analysis begins with an account of the evolution of the Western state's interest in the viability of cities since the industrial revolution. Their agument extends to the local level, examining the nature of the local state and its autonomy from national political and economic forces. Using cross-national evidence, Gurr and King examine specific problems of urban policy in the United States and Britain. In the United States, for example, they show how the dramatic increases in federal assistance to cities in the 1930s and the 1960s were made in response to urban crises, which simultaneously threatened national interests and offered opportunities for federal expansion of power. As a result, national and local states now play significant material and regulatory roles that can have as much impact on cities as all private economic activities. A comparative analysis of thirteen American cities reflects the range and impact of the state's activities at the urban level. Boston, they argue, has become the archetypical postindustrial public city: half of its population and personal income are directly dependent on government spending. While Gurr and King are careful to delineate the limits to the extent and effectiveness of state intervention, they conclude that these limits are much broader than formerly thought. Ultimately, their evidence suggests that the continued decline of most of the old industrial cities is the result of public decisions to allow their economic fate to be determined in the private sector.
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TL;DR: The authors showed that both political and economic effects were important determinants of grant allocation during the New Deal period and that the importance of all the political variables is dramatically affected by the inclusion or exclusion of Nevada.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The Familial State as discussed by the authors studies the rise and fall of Dutch hegemony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with France and England as comparative and contending cases, and argues that patrimonial state formation cannot be understood without an examination of the ways in which elite family heads reproduce and regulate the structure of rule.
Abstract: Julia Adams’ The Familial State studies the rise and fall of Dutch hegemony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with France and England as comparative and contending cases. Adams argues that patrimonial state formation cannot be understood without an examination of the ways in which elite family heads reproduce and regulate the structure of rule. In the process, she revises state theory, putting gender squarely at the center of state formation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of economic conditions, culture and ideology, electoral politics, governmental institutions and prior public policies, and the role of business, labor, and women's voluntary groups on the priority of state enactments was investigated.
Abstract: M \/ f the United States. Contrary to established wisdom in political science, their enabling statutes spread very quickly across most states in the 1910s, with smaller, nonindustrial states often in the vanguard. Previous research concerning the predictors of state-level policy innovations has focused on a small subset of possible explanatory variables, typically economic or electoral conditions. We operationalize and test hypotheses about the influence of economic conditions, culture and ideology, electoral politics, governmental institutions and prior public policies, and the role of business, labor, and women's voluntary groups on the priority of state enactments. Our findings indicate that widespread federations of women's voluntary groups exerted a powerful influence on mothers' pension enactments even before most American women had the right to vote. We demonstrate the value to empirical political science of theories and variables referring to gender and women's politics.
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TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper found that Chinese NGOs are often more interested in building alliances with state agencies and actors than in autonomy from the government, and proposed a third way: an approach based on organizational analysis.
Abstract: In the last two decades, the People's Republic of China has witnessed an explosion of NGOs. What will the implications be for state–society relations? This article, drawing upon research conducted at seven Chinese NGOs, critiques two approaches to analysing this problem: the civil society framework and the privatization perspective. It then proffers a third way: an approach based on organizational analysis. Both the civil society and privatization perspectives assume a zero-sum game between a monolithic state and NGOs/citizens. Yet empirical evidence reveals that Chinese NGOs are often much more interested in building alliances with state agencies and actors than in autonomy from the government. From an organizational perspective, this makes sense. As organizations, both NGOs and state agencies need to ensure a constant supply of necessary resources for the firm to survive, and their strategies for achieving this goal will be constrained by their actors' own institutional experiences and the cultural fram...
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