In this important new text, Martin Smith reassesses traditional debates aboutpower and how they understand the nature and impact of the state. He developsan analysis of the new forms of state power that have developed in response to the perceived challenges of globalization and governance. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: THEORIES OF STATE POWER - Understanding Power: Traditional Approaches - Understanding Power: Radical Approaches - States and Power - A Framework for Analysing State Power - PART II: MECHANISMS OF STATE POWER - The Development of the State from Modernity to Past- modernity - Legitimacy, Authority and Bureaucracy - Force and Terror - Rationality and Regulation - Surveillance - Risk - States and the Moral Order - The Limits of StatePower - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-333-96463-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 14/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés