Changing Boundaries of the Political
Subtitle: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521343664
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Political science & theory; Sociology, Social Studies; Social policy; History - General History; Contemporary Politics - Europe; Political Science; Privatization; Politics/International Relations; Western Continental Europe; Europe - General; General; Europe--Politics and government--1945-; Political Science / General; Economic policy; 1945-; Europe; Politics and government
First sentence: Behind the idea of politics having boundaries, and of these dilating and contracting, it is not hard to discover, in both individual and collective representations, the image of a state of affairs - and the hope for or terror of it - where no boundaries at all are set around the practice of political commitment and the exercise of political will.