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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another

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The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines but present a new model for understanding state-society relations. It allies parts of the state and groups in society against other such coalitions, determines 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, and what shared meaning people hold about their relations with others and their place in the world.

306 pages, Hardcover

First published November 14, 1997

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Devlet üzerine iyi bir çalışma: İç çelişkileri, toplumla sürekli mücadelesi, yerel egemenlerle kurduğu çatışmalı ilişki, kendi kurumlarının zamanla kendisini tehdit eder hale gelmesi...

Türkiye'deki oligarşi-içi çatışmaların perspektifinden bakılırsa açıklama gücü yüksek bir model. Eksiği sınıfsal bakış, oysa ki teorisi bu unsur olmadan havada kalıyor. Bunca çelişkinin, mücadelenin, çığrından çıkmış korkunun, verimsizliğin uçurumuna bakmaya korkan sosyal bilim, kendi açıklama gücünü inkar eder.
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