The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199691586.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, and John D. Stephens

Abstract

The state remains the most important political unit of the modern world. In the most recent phase of globalization the role and position of the state has changed, but after a short intermezzo in which nothing less than the “end of the state” was frequently proclaimed, the social sciences have reached consensus about the ongoing centrality of states. This Handbook focuses on state transformations. Transformations are fundamental changes of the state. We take into consideration the entire period from the emergence of the nation-state in Europe to the present but we concentrate on state transformations over the past four decades. This Handbook presents the latest social science knowledge about the state and its transformations along with issues for further research. Transformations of the state are considered for all regions of the world, for countries in economically advanced and less developed regions, for young states and those which can look back at a long tradition of state development, for democratic states and authoritarian regimes, for countries with (previously) socialist economic systems and the states where the idea of liberal market economies originated, for states with a colonial past and their erstwhile colonial masters. It is challenging and ambitious to examine such a wide range of states and their transformations, even in an exten¬sive Handbook profiting from the participation of a large number of leading experts.

Keywords: nature(s) of state transformation, state activities, state instruments, state sovereignty, state–society relations, interface of domestic and international politics, worlds of states, state theory

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Jun 2015

ISBN:: 9780199691586

Published online:: Sep 2015

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199691586.001.0001

Editors

Stephan Leibfried, editor
Stephan Leibfried is Professor of Social and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, Director of the Collabo¬rative Research Center on Transformations of the State (TranState, 2003–2014), Codirector of the Division “Institutions and History of the Welfare State” of the Center for Social Policy Research (ZeS), and faculty member of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS, 2007 ff.), all at the University of Bremen, Germany; also Research Professor at Jacobs University Bremen.

Evelyne Huber, editor
Evelyne Huber is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; 2005 and 2013 Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Northwest Germany in cooperation with the Collabo¬rative Research Center on Transformations of the State (TranState, 2003–2014) and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS, 2007 ff.) and its forerunner (GSSS, 2001–2007).

Matthew Lange, editor
Matthew Lange is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Jonah D. Levy, editor
Jonah D. Levy is Associate Professor of Political Science in The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science of the Uni¬ver¬sity of California at Berkeley, USA.

John D. Stephens, editor
John D. Stephens is Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for European Studies (CES) and of the European Union Center for Excellence (EUCE), all at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; 2005 and 2013 he was Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Northwest Germany in cooperation with the Collabo¬rative Research Center on Transformations of the State (TranState, 2003–2014) and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS, 2007 ff.) and its forerunner (GSSS, 2001–2007).

Access to the complete content on Oxford Handbooks Online requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.

Please subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code.

For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.

Front Matter
Introduction: Transformations of the StateEvelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens
Changing Perspectives on the StateJonah D. Levy, Stephan Leibfried, and Frank Nullmeier
Part I The Emergence of Modern States
- Varieties of State ExperienceJohn A. Hall
- The Layered State: Pathways and Patterns of Modern Nation State BuildingPhilip Manow and Daniel Ziblatt
- The Emergence of the New World StatesAndrew S. Kelly and James Mahoney
- State Formation and Transformation in Africa and Asia: The Third Phase of State ExpansionMatthew Lange
- State Theory: Four Analytical TraditionsMatthias vom Hau
- Limited Statehood: A Critical PerspectiveThomas Risse
- State Transformations in Comparative PerspectiveJonah D. Levy
Part II Internationalization and the State
- Internationalization and the State: Sovereignty as the External Side of Modern StatehoodMichael Zürn and Nicole Deitelhoff
- Crucial Types
  - Sovereign (In)Equality in the Evolution of the International SystemLora Anne Viola, Duncan Snidal, and Michael Zürn
  - The Competition State: The Modern State in a Global EconomyPhilipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf
  - The Embedded State: The New Division of Labor in the Provision of Governance FunctionsTine Hanrieder and Bernhard Zangl
  - Multilevel Governance and the StateArjan H. Schakel, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks
  - Beyond the State?: Are Transnational Regulatory Institutions Replacing the State?Walter Mattli
- Crucial Issues
  - Security, Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect: Transforming the State by Reinterpreting SovereigntyChristopher Daase
  - Ambiguous Transformations: The 2007/08 International Financial Crisis and Changing Economic Roles of the StateEric Helleiner
  - Environmental Risks and the Changing Interface of Domestic and International GovernanceKlaus Dingwerth and Helge Jörgens
Part III Contemporary Transformations of the Core OECD World of States
- State Transformations among the Affluent DemocraciesJonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens, and Stephan Leibfried
- Crucial Types
  - The Transformations of the Statist ModelJonah D. Levy
  - From Industrial Corporatism to the Social Investment StateJingjing Huo and John D. Stephens
  - The Changing Role of the State in Liberal Market EconomiesPeter A. Hall
  - ISI States Reverse Course: From Import Substitution to Open EconomyHerman Schwartz and Sebastián Etchemendy
- Crucial Issues
  - Welfare State Transformation: Convergence and the Rise of the Supply-Side ModelHerbert Obinger and Peter Starke
  - The State and Gender Equality: From Patriarchal to Women-Friendly State?Julia S. O’Connor
  - From the Positive to the Regulatory State: A Transformation in the Machinery of Governance?Katharina Holzinger and Susanne K. Schmidt
  - Migration and the Porous Boundaries of Democratic StatesRainer Bauböck
  - Plurinational StatesMichael Keating
  - The Changing Architecture of the National Security StateAndreas Busch
  - Transformations of the Democratic StateFrank Nullmeier, Steffen Schneider, and Andreas Hepp
Part IV Post-Communist Peculiarities? State Transformations in the Former Communist World
- The Peculiarities of Post-Communist State Development: Institutional Consolidation and Elite CompetitionAnna Grzymała-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong
- The Transformation of the State in Eastern EuropeMilada Anna Vachudova
- Resources as Constraints? Natural Resource Wealth and the Possibility of Developmental States in the Former Soviet UnionPauline Jones Luong
- The Transformation of the Russian StateBrian D. Taylor
- China: Economic Liberalization, Adaptive Informal Institutions, and Party-State ResilienceKellee S. Tsai
Part V State Transformations in the Non-OECD World
- States in the Global South: Transformations, Trends, and DiversityMatthew Lange
- Crucial Types
  - Human Development, State Transformation, and the Politics of the Developmental StatePeter B. Evans and Patrick Heller
  - Rentier States and State TransformationsDavid Waldner and Benjamin Smith
  - Predatory States and State TransformationWilliam Reno
  - State Failure and State TransformationSven Chojnacki and Anne Menzel
- Crucial Issues
  - Ethnicity and State Transformation in the Global SouthMatthew Lange and Klaus Schlichte
  - Democracy and Regime Change in the Global South: Causes and TrendsGrigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme B. Robertson
  - Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East AsiaEvelyne Huber and Sara Niedzwiecki
Part VI Conclusion
- Conclusion: States TransformingEvelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens
End Matter
- Name Index
- Index of Subjects

Select your specializations: Select All / Clear Selections

Archaeology

Business and Management

Classical Studies

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Economics and Finance

History

Law

Linguistics

Literature

Music

Neuroscience

Philosophy

Physical Sciences

Political Science

Psychology

Religion

Sociology

Browse All

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, and John D. Stephens

Abstract

Bibliographic Information

Editors

Contents