State (polity)

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Ukraine: State and Nation Building

Abstract: Ukraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their role in the state building process, as well as other attributes of the modern nation-state such as borders, symbols, myths and national histories. Extensive primary sources and interviews with leading members of Ukranian elites, show that state building is an integral part of the transition process and cannot be divorced from democratization and the establishment of a market economy.

Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects

Abstract: Preface Introduction: Deciphering the Global Saskia Sassen Part One: Microspaces in Global Scalings Postindustrial Bohemia: Culture, Neighborhood, and the Global Economy Richard Lloyd Translocal Civilities: Chinese Modern Dance at Downtown Los Angeles Public Concerts Marina Peterson Re-Imagining Old Havana: World Heritage and the Production of Scale in Late Socialist Cuba Matthew J. Hill Becoming Global?: Evangelism and Transnational Practices in Russian Society Sarah Busse Spencer Deciphering the local in a global neoliberal age: Three favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil Simone Buechler Part Two: Translocal Circuits and their Mobilities Locating Transnational Activists: The United States Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Confines of the National Evalyn W. Tennant Deciphering the Space and Scale of Global Nomadism: Subjectivity and Counterculture in a Global Age Anthony D'Andrea Outsourcing Difference: Expatriate Training and the Disciplining of Culture Heather Hindman Producing Global Economy from Below: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan Gracia Liu Farrer The Sub-national Constitution of Global Financial Markets Rachel Harvey Part Three: Shifting Spaces and Subjects of the Political The City and the Self: The Emergence of New Political Subjects in London Anne Bartlett Ghetto Cosmopolitanism: Making Theory at the Margins Rami Nashashibi Deregulating Markets, Reregulating Crime: Extralegal Policing & the Penal State in Mexico Jennifer L. Johnson The Transnational Human Rights Movement and States of Emergency in Israel/Palestine Josh Kaplan Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in Malaysia Kamal Sadiq Global-National Interactions and Sovereign Debt Restructuring Outcomes Giselle Datz

Manufactured Civil Society: Counting the Cost

Abstract: Since its election in 1997, the New Labour government has espoused the value of civil society. Civil society has become increasingly utilized in policy initiatives, especially in regard to regenerating communities and fighting social exclusion. In this regard, civil society, traditionally viewed as a sphere outside of the state, now finds itself engaged in various types of ‘partnerships’ with both the state and the business community. This has had the effect of redrawing the boundaries between civil society and the state. This article examines what I term ‘manufactured’ civil society; that is, groups that look like civil society, but are in fact a mixture of state/voluntary sector organizations. The article concludes that civil society pays a high price for involvement with the state.

Globalization makes states: perspectives of local governance in the age of the world city

Abstract: This article discusses perspectives of local agency in the age of the world city. It presents a brief critique of the debate on globalization and posits that globalization makes states. This includes a discussion of the local state as a complex creature of state and civil society, of the regulatory power of the urban and of the world city as a site of the emergence of the post-national state. While it can be argued that globalization hollows out the state and helps facilitate the replacement of state by non-state institutions in the market or civil society, it also creates new forms of states. The state does not wither away but is rather reincarnated in a plethora of forms on many socio-spatial scales. Globalization makes states but these differ from the ones we used to know. This article concentrates on those new forms of governance that occur on the urban level, particularly in so-called world or global cities. It makes the case for the recognition of the urban as a relevant site of the political in the...

State Political Culture and Public Opinion

Abstract: Do the states of the United States matter (or are they of no political consequence)? Using a data set with over 50 thousand respondents, we demonstrate the influence of state political culture on partisanship and ideology. For individuals, we find that the state of residence is an important predictor of partisan and ideological identification, independent of their demographic characteristics. At the aggregate level, state culture dominates state demography as a source of state-to-state differences in opinion. In general, geographic location may be a more important source of opinion than previously thought. One indication of the importance of state culture is that state effects on partisanship and ideology account for about half of the variance in state voting in recent presidential elections.