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15 - The Political Economy of the Capitalist State

from III - The State and Its Political Organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Josh Pacewicz
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

As a field of scholarship, political economy sometimes appears to hang together loosely in the contemporary social sciences, if at all. Those who self-identify as political economists or are identified that way by others may work in different disciplines like anthropology, political science, sociology, history, or geography and on topics that range from global capital flows to street-level accounts of urban poverty. But, at some level, political economists are united by an understanding of the economy, state, and civil society as interdependent systems or regimes. They depart from the assumption that one must analyze politics and the economy relationally.

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capitalismwelfare statepolitical economystatesmarketsneoliberalismfinancialization
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 409 - 434
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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