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Bureaucrats versus the State in Capitalist and Socialist Regimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Richard Kraus  and
Reeve D. Vanneman
Richard Kraus
Affiliation:
University of Oregon and University of Maryland
Reeve D. Vanneman
Affiliation:
University of Oregon and University of Maryland
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Extract

Resurgent scholarly interest in the state has focused attention on the growth and decline of state power: Samuel Huntington's emphasis on the importance of state making and state decay, James O'Connor's anticipation of the financial crises of large states, Immanuel Wallerstein's identification of strong states with core areas of the world economy, Charles Tilly's accounts of European efforts to create more powerful states, and Theda Skocpol's analysis of revolutions as attempts to restore the strength of weakened central regimes.

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Bureaucrats and State Building
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 111 - 122
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1985

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