State Power and Social Forces
Subtitle: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Contributors: Joel Samuel Migdal (Editor); Atul Kohli (Editor); Vivienne Shue (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 26, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780521467346
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Politics / Current Events; Developing countries; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Social conditions; Politics and government; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Developing countries--Politics and government; Political Science / General; Political Science : General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
First sentence: Ever since Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in the seventeenth century, 150 years before the full blooming of capitalism, thinkers have grappled with the increasingly powerful state and its role in society.