State/culture - State-Formation After the Cultural Turn

Klappentext The volume first examines some of the unsatisfying ways in which cultural processes have been discussed in social science literature on the state. It demonstrates new and sophisticated approaches to understanding both the role culture plays in the formation of states and the state's influence on broad cultural developments. The book includes theoretical essays and empirical studies; the latter group of essays are concerned with early modern European nations, non-European countries undergoing political modernization and 20th-century nation-states. A wide range of perspectives are presented in order to delineate this emergent area of research. Together the essays are intended to constitute an agenda-setting work for the social sciences. Zusammenfassung What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the...

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• Authors: George Steinmetz
• Assisted by: George Steinmetz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.1999
• EAN: 9780801485336
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8533-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture; The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture; Wilder House Series in Politic; The Wilder House Politics, His
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education