The Modern State - Softcover

Pierson, Christopher

 
9780415587624: The Modern State
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041558762X ISBN 13: 9780415587624
Verlag: Routledge, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the environment.

Subjects covered include:


• The evolution of the state system
• Placing the state in modernity
• States and societies
• State and economy
• States and citizens
• States and the international order
• States of the twenty-first century

This book is essential reading for all those studying the state, international relations and comparative politics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on issues surrounding the state and particularly the welfare state. He is author of Beyond the Welfare State? and an editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
041558762X
ISBN 13 
9780415587624
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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