The Modern State

Pierson, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0415587611 / ISBN 13: 9780415587617

Published by Routledge, 2011

About this Item

Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2011. 3rd Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modern State
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415587611
• ISBN 13: 9780415587617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the 21st Century. The book has been entirely revised and updated throughout, including substantial new material on the financial crisis and the environment.

Subjects covered include:

• The evolution of the state system
• Placing the state in modernity
• States and societies
• State and economy
• States and citizens
• States and the international order
• States of the twenty-first century

This book is essential reading for all those studying the state, international relations and comparative politics.

About the Author

Christopher Pierson is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on issues surrounding the state and particularly the welfare state. He is author of Beyond the Welfare State? and an editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State.