The State: Historical and Political DimensionsRichard English, Charles Townshend Routledge, 12. okt. 2012 - 264 sider Drawing on current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British State today and looks at its place in the future. Featuring original contributions from a variety of disciplines, this study tackles the problem of defining and studying the state and looks at the role the nation-state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world. |
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Side 4
... autonomous governance of a given community , and the control of a population within clearly defined territorial boundaries . The logic by which these boundaries have become fixed may seem erratic - accidents of history and dynastic ...
... autonomous governance of a given community , and the control of a population within clearly defined territorial boundaries . The logic by which these boundaries have become fixed may seem erratic - accidents of history and dynastic ...
Side 7
... autonomous is the state from its ambient civil society ? To what extent does the state serve its own ends ? How significantly has the state - society divide been eroded by a reconfiguration or a dispersion of state power under the ...
... autonomous is the state from its ambient civil society ? To what extent does the state serve its own ends ? How significantly has the state - society divide been eroded by a reconfiguration or a dispersion of state power under the ...
Side 14
... autonomy ? How far does disaffection , in its various guises , demand something beyond the state ; or does it seek in various forms a statist response ? The latter might be considered more plausible in that part of the UK - Northern ...
... autonomy ? How far does disaffection , in its various guises , demand something beyond the state ; or does it seek in various forms a statist response ? The latter might be considered more plausible in that part of the UK - Northern ...
Side 21
... autonomy of the county gentry and municipal oligarchies . Restoration monarchs envisaged a quite different constitutional settlement from that which emerged in the 1690s , a constitutional settlement whose fulcrum would have been the ...
... autonomy of the county gentry and municipal oligarchies . Restoration monarchs envisaged a quite different constitutional settlement from that which emerged in the 1690s , a constitutional settlement whose fulcrum would have been the ...
Side 23
... communi- ties , ethnic groups , even property - as entities whose integrity and autonomous rights parliament and government must respect.25 In a related but distinct way , Jeremy Bentham challenged The state we were in 23.
... communi- ties , ethnic groups , even property - as entities whose integrity and autonomous rights parliament and government must respect.25 In a related but distinct way , Jeremy Bentham challenged The state we were in 23.
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Wales and the British state The outer form of subjugation | 44 |
The state in independent Ireland | 66 |
The state and Northern Ireland | 95 |
Federal and confederal ideas in Scottish political culture | 109 |
Member states and the European Union | 143 |
State and public security | 165 |
The state and prostate terrorism in Ireland | 184 |
The British state sovereignty and identities | 210 |
Nations states and religions | 235 |
Index | 248 |
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