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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2012
      August 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511613067
      9780521792868
      9780521797061
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613067
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. That approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. Despite the triumph of concept of state in social science literature, actual states have had great difficulty in turning public policies into planned social change. The state-in-society approach points observers to the ongoing struggles over which rules dictating how people will lead their daily lives. These struggles, which ally parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determine how societies and states create and maintain distinct ways of structuring day-to-day life - the nature of the rules that govern people's behavior, whom they benefit and whom they disadvantage, which sorts of elements unite people and which divide them, what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.

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