The Stratified State: Radical Institutionalist Theories of Participation and Duality

ISBN-13: 9781563240201 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 280 str.

William M. Dugger

Opis

These essays in the purest tradition of political economy consider three major themes from the multiple relationships between the state and the economy: duality, myth, and crisis. The state is a complex mix of dualisms: the welfare versus the warfare state; the agency of both social integration and exploitation; and public versus private institutions. The editors aim to distinguish true from false dualisms. Myths in modern society are important as they enables whites to dominate blacks, men to dominate women, warplanners to dominate peacemakers, the rich to dominate the poor. The editors consider the myth that the state and the market are separate, the state as a single, monolithic structure, and that we can all identify and share in a national interest. The crisis of the state is the third major theme. The state is in crisis, because we have no fully-developed theory of the state, because its welfare and warfare functions are undergoing profound change. The essays are all written from the point of view of radical institutionalism and emphasise the need for increased participation in the policymaking and policy evaluating processes of the state.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Part One: Foundations, 2. The Capitalist State as a Terrain of Rights: A Radical Institutionalist and Post-Marxist Convergence, 3. Radical Institutionalism and the Theory of the State, 4. Schools of Thought and Theories of the State: Reflections of an Institutionai Economist, 5. An Evolutionary Theory of the State and the Market, 6. Not the Economy: Feminist Theory, Institutionai Change, and the State, Part Two: Issues, 7. Economic Security and the State, 8. Women and the State, 9. The Role of the State in the Family, 10. Institutions, Arms Spending, and the State, 11. Conclusion, Index

O autorze

William M. Dugger, William T. Waller Jr.