Marxists led the postwar revival of interest in theorizing the state during the mid-1960s. From
their general concern with the form and functions of the capitalist state in Western Europe …

There has been a major renewal of Marxist work on state theory in the last thirty years. This
has been prompted by the crisis of the national state and its typical forms of intervention in …

The role of the state in recent years has demonstrated the continued need for the insights of
Marxist state theory. Yet this should not blind us to the reasons why the latter became …

This article addresses West European and North American developments in theorizing the
state. It briefl y reviews the fi rst major post-war revival of theoretical interest in the state that …

With wide-ranging coverage and a contemporary outlook, this new edition introduces all of
the main competing theoretical approaches to the study of the state, including pluralism …

For many theorists the problem of the capitalist state is seen to have been exhaustively
posed in the 1970s by Miliband, Poulantzas and the state derivationists. Yet more recent …

The ability to rise from the dead is unique to that which has been improperly buried. From
Freud's Totem and Taboo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, a lack of proper burying protocol …

Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been
mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a …

Marxist theories of the capitalist state deal with questions about the role of the state in
society, and more specifically its relation to class and class struggle. This chapter critically …

A major introductory textbook for students of politics, sociology and public administration on
theories of the state and of politics. The five core chapters each introduce a major school of …