Topic: State in Comparative Perspective
What are the difficulties faced by a political theorist in comparing the States?
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 comparison assumes like units on a common scale → States are not like units → theorist meets variety, context, biasRoute 2…
What are the distinctive features of the post-modern state in the advanced capitalist economies? Analyse.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 centralised modern state → decentralised, flexible, fragmented order → authority dispersed + reshaped, not removedRoute 2 drivers: globalization + technology +…
Do you subscribe to the view that the modern constructs of the state and politics are pre-eminently Euro-Centric and not indigenous and appropriate for the analysis of non-western societies?
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 qualified yes → modern state a European, Westphalian creation → imported onto a pre-modern baseRoute 2 state and politics as Western…
Describe the changing nature of the State in the developing societies in the context of inclusive growth in the 21st century.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 developing State = apparatus inherited from colonial rule → early form concentrated growth, ill-suited to inclusionRoute 2 nature has since shifted…
“The post-colonial state was thought of an entity that stood outside and above society as an autonomous agency. Explain.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 state an imported institution, not organic growth → read as standing outside / above society, self-directing → but appearance only; autonomy…
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