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 vii
... Question and British Politics , 1868-1996 ( revised 1996 ) and co- editor ( with Alan O'Day ) of Parnell in Perspective ( 1991 ) . Steve Bruce has been professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991. He was previously ...
... Question and British Politics , 1868-1996 ( revised 1996 ) and co- editor ( with Alan O'Day ) of Parnell in Perspective ( 1991 ) . Steve Bruce has been professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991. He was previously ...
Side 2
... questions concerning public order , political violence , religion , nationalism , sovereignty and identity . Despite the differences made by supra - state units such as the European Union , the nation state remains the basic political ...
... questions concerning public order , political violence , religion , nationalism , sovereignty and identity . Despite the differences made by supra - state units such as the European Union , the nation state remains the basic political ...
Side 3
... question of force . Certainly the state's activities relate to the maintenance of order within a particular community , and definitions of the state have long and often focused on force . In doing so they have frequently echoed Weber ...
... question of force . Certainly the state's activities relate to the maintenance of order within a particular community , and definitions of the state have long and often focused on force . In doing so they have frequently echoed Weber ...
Side 5
... questions of political representation , and they carry weighty implications for the issue of state legitimacy . As noted in relation to Weber's force - centred definition of the state , legitimacy is crucial . In modern states ...
... questions of political representation , and they carry weighty implications for the issue of state legitimacy . As noted in relation to Weber's force - centred definition of the state , legitimacy is crucial . In modern states ...
Side 6
... question of definition might be to consider important phenomena to which the state is related , but from which it ... Questions of the state frequently focus attention on the nation and on nationalism . John Breuilly's argument is ...
... question of definition might be to consider important phenomena to which the state is related , but from which it ... Questions of the state frequently focus attention on the nation and on nationalism . John Breuilly's argument is ...
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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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