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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 The Modern State -- What is the state? -- State capacity -- State power -- 2 The Origins of State Capacity -- City-states -- Empires -- The ancient state -- Conclusion: Lessons from antiquity -- 3 Building Capacity, East and West -- The Chinese Empire -- Byzantium -- West European feudalism -- Central power and its projection -- A patrimonial variant -- Governmental coherence: Absolutism and constitutionalism -- Institutional interdependence? -- Conclusion: Lessons of the feudal and early modern period -- 4 The State, Capitalism and Industrialization -- The state and industrialism -- The 'late developers' -- Industrialization and the development of state infrastructure -- The social embedding of the state -- Enhanced interdependence -- Asian backwardness? -- Conclusion: The state and industrialization -- 5 States and International Systems -- The European international system -- The East Asian international system -- A world system? -- An imperial world system? -- Conclusion: The state and the international system -- 6 The State Embedded: Twentieth-Century Alternatives? -- Welfare capitalism -- East Asian welfarism -- Communist totalism -- Capitalist success, communist failure? -- No third way -- Conclusion: State capacity in the twentieth century -- 7 State Capacity and Governance in a Globalized World -- Economic globalization -- Political globalization -- Cultural/ideological globalization -- The limits of globalization -- The state and globalization -- Conclusion: State power in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance. This lively and accessible new book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role and future of the modern state and makes its own distinct contribution to tracing out continuities and changes especially in relation to the development of state capacity
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