State (polity)

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Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence

Abstract: PROLOGUE Words and Acts Tools and Paradigms Keywords UTILITY The Puzzling Failure of Jeremy Bentham Antimetaphysics Influence Quicksands of Expediency The Frame of Political Argument NATURAL RIGHTS Declarations A State of Nature Delimiting Rights Certain Political Rituals Revival THE PEOPLE Mechanics and Majorities Popular Sovereignty Revolutionary Assemblies The Identity of the People GOVERNMENT The Rhetoric of Counterrevolution A Christian Party In Politics Property Reconsidered Human Rights and Sacred Obligations The People Deposed THE STATE Professional Political Science Constitutional Law The Grammar of a Profession Webs of Contradiction The Uses of an Abstraction INTERESTS Highbrow and Lowbrow The Common Good Utilitarianism Redivivus Empirical Political Science The Disappearing Public The Rhetoric of Realism EPILOGUE The Conflations of Freedom Rights without Retrospection Public Talk Notes Guide To Further Reading Index

Territory's Continuing Allure

Abstract: The role of the territorial state has changed in recent decades in the wake of the communications revolution; the explosion of transnational social, political, and economic formations; accelerated ...

Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation

Abstract: Preface - PART 1: THE MEANINGS OF POLITICAL INTERPRETATION - Introduction - Paradigms Lost: Development Theory - Class Theory - Underdevelopment Theory - Revolutionary Theory - Democratic Theory - PART 2: CONCEPTS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POWER IN AFRICA - Introduction - The Political Community - Political Accountability - The State - Civil Society - Production - PART 3: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE AFRICAN POST-COLONIAL POLITICAL ORDER - Introduction - The Crisis of Nationality and Sovereignty - The Crisis of Legitimacy and Representation - The Crisis of Accumulation and Inequality - The Crisis of Good Government and Political Morality - The Crisis of Violence and Survival - PART 4: POLITICAL CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA - Introduction - The Dynamics of Political Africanisation - The Dialectics of the Hegemonic Drive - The Politics of Dependence - The Reproduction of Power - Notes - Index

Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate (2000)

Abstract: One of the more remarkable developments that took place in Latin America during the last two decades of the twentieth century was the emergence of indigenous peoples as new social and political actors and their implantation in the national consciousness of the region’s countries. The changing relationship between national states and indigenous peoples in Latin America mirrors to a certain extent the re-emergence of indigenous issues in international legal debates since the early 1980s. However, it is remarkable, considering that throughout most of their modern history the Latin American republics had practically ignored the indigenous component of their national identity.1