The Imported State - The Westernization of the Political Order

"This is an important book by any standard. No matter how commonplace it is to observe that the state was born in Western Europe and subsequently exported to the rest of the world, until now there has been no single book that traces out the implications of this for those peripheral, extra-European societies that were compelled to import this bizarre form of political order. It is impossible to do justice to the variety and scope of arguments that Badie develops in this extraordinarily erudite and interdisciplinary work."
--Philippe C. Schmitter, Stanford University

Summary

This book traces the rise of the modern state in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially colonial and postcolonial societies. It shows how non-Western cultures invented their own practices of the state, thereby transforming the original model.

Product details

• Authors: Bertrand Badie, Badie Bertrand
• Assisted by: Claudia Royal (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780804737678
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3767-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Series: Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés; Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses; Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métis
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education