Do We Need a Theory of the State? MACPHERSON, C. B.
Archives européennes de sociologie. European journal of sociology.,
01/1977, Letnik:
18, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Examined is the question of whether a theory of the state is needed (both normative & explanatory), in the grand tradition of Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel, & Mill. Contemporary empirical theorists either ...do not need one, or are incapable of having one. Contemporary normative liberal theorists, eg, Rawls, do not need one. Social democrats & democratic socialists do need one, & so do contemporary Marxist theorists, & they (eg, Miliband, Poulantzas, Habermas, O'Connor) are working effectively toward one. More attention to certain implications of their findings is needed: (1) that the legitimation problem has already changed, (2) that a new pluralism has emerged, a pluralism in reverse, by which the state can pluralize capital, & (3) that the possibiilty of saving any liberal democracy depends on an understanding of the new pluralism. These implications reduce the distance between Marxists & social democrats. AA.
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in ...nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.
