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
... emergence of states , and certainly the nation state is a comparatively recent feature of human experience . But the modern state has been the framework for the autonomous governance of a given community , and the control of a ...
... emergence of states , and certainly the nation state is a comparatively recent feature of human experience . But the modern state has been the framework for the autonomous governance of a given community , and the control of a ...
Side 7
... emerged to dispute such questions.14 But key points may be established at this stage . First , one of the central paradoxes of the nation that of simultaneous universality and particularity is echoed in the case of the state . Almost ...
... emerged to dispute such questions.14 But key points may be established at this stage . First , one of the central paradoxes of the nation that of simultaneous universality and particularity is echoed in the case of the state . Almost ...
Side 8
... emergence of states owed much to the need of their rulers to raise revenue , and continued reliance on various forms of taxation directs us to crucial questions concerning the changing dynamics of the modern state . The state remains ...
... emergence of states owed much to the need of their rulers to raise revenue , and continued reliance on various forms of taxation directs us to crucial questions concerning the changing dynamics of the modern state . The state remains ...
Side 9
... emergence or development of states . Indeed , considera- tion of historical peculiarity leads one to consider just how systematic one can be about the state while remaining accurate in regard to specific cases . This book concerns ...
... emergence or development of states . Indeed , considera- tion of historical peculiarity leads one to consider just how systematic one can be about the state while remaining accurate in regard to specific cases . This book concerns ...
Side 11
... emerge , in fact , a ' representative deficit ' in English parliamentary structures ? Certainly , as Eastwood points out ... emerged a language which failed adequately to reflect local dimensions , ' a distinctively English language of ...
... emerge , in fact , a ' representative deficit ' in English parliamentary structures ? Certainly , as Eastwood points out ... emerged a language which failed adequately to reflect local dimensions , ' a distinctively English language of ...
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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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