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: September 30, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780521461665
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Sociology; Political Science; Development Studies (Social Sciences); Political Science (General); Social conditions; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Developing countries--Politics and government; Political Science / General; Developing countries; Politics and government
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.