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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 Jan 1984
TL;DR: Hanging Together as discussed by the authors assesses the history, decisions, successes, and failures of the seven-power summits from Rambouillet in 1975 to the 1983 meeting at Williamsburg, and looks forward to the 1984 summit in London.
Abstract: For nearly a decade the leaders of the seven major industrial countries the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Canada have met annually to discuss international economic and political issues. Regular summitry of this sort is virtually unprecedented in modern diplomacy. Proponents see the Western summits as providing collective leadership that is vital in a turbulent world, while critics dismiss summitry as distracting and even damaging to political and economic stability."Hanging Together" charts the modern dilemma between economic interdependence and national sovereignty. It assesses the history, decisions, successes, and failures of the seven-power summits from Rambouillet in 1975 to the 1983 meeting at Williamsburg, and looks forward to the 1984 summit in London. The authors show how the growing importance of international commerce and finance has caused national and international politics to become entangled, and how national borders have become more permeable. Born in an era of waning American hegemony, the summits reveal the tension between American leadership and collective Western management of the world economy. The authors also trace the struggles of heads of state to balance the conflicting imperatives of personal authority and bureaucratic expertise. Because summits involve the power and prestige of each country's highest authorities, summitry reveals in concentrated form how these conflicts are expressed and managed.As a blend of contemporary history and political economy, "Hanging Together" demonstrates that summits are not isolated annual encounters, but part of a continuous process of international and domestic negotiation about the most important and controversial issues facing all governments today."
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TL;DR: This paper focused on the role of workers' hegemonic acceptance of the core values of the market and the state in workers' protests in China, and used interviews in Tianjin from 1995 to 1999 to explicate the existence of this hegemony.
Abstract: Workers' protests in the 1980s and 1990s, numerous and widely distributed though they may be, remain spasmodic, spontaneous and unco-ordinated. While the reasons are numerous, this article focuses on the role of workers' hegemonic acceptance of the core values of the market and the state. Data from interviews in Tianjin from 1995 to 1999 are used to explicate the existence of this hegemony. Several of its sources, some general, some specific to China, are then discussed. The findings are situated within recent scholarship on labour politics in China, and the prospects are discussed.
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TL;DR: The authors investigates what kind of citizenship identities contemporary European states display and further in their citizenship and integration campaigns toward immigrants and ethnic minorities, arguing that citizenship identities are increasingly universalistic, resembling the precepts of "political liberalism" (Rawls) and "constitutional patriotism" (Habermas).
Abstract: Among other things, modern citizenship denotes an identity that unites and integrates the members of a state into a collectivity. This paper investigates what kind of citizenship identities contemporary European states display and further in their citizenship and integration campaigns toward immigrants and ethnic minorities. It is argued that citizenship identities are increasingly universalistic, resembling the precepts of ‘political liberalism’ (Rawls) and ‘constitutional patriotism’ (Habermas). This is paradoxical because what states have in common can impossibly lend a distinct identity to them, binding people to this and not any state. However, especially in confrontation with Muslim immigrants, liberalism tends to transmute from procedural framework for toleration into a substantive way of life, with strong exclusionary and identity-forging implications.
131 citations
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The setting of the problem: the Dutch Republic - united in contrast the costs of warfare as mentioned in this paper. And the relative crisis: shifting the burden of war the first shift - centralized means the second shift - provincial taxation the third shift - public loans.
Abstract: Part 1 The setting of the problem: the Dutch Republic - united in contrasts the costs of warfare. Part 2 The relative crisis: shifting the burden of war the first shift - centralized means the second shift - provincial taxation the third shift - public loans. Part 3 Consequences of shifting: civil servants in a fragmented state state finances and patterns of state formation.
131 citations