The State
Abstract
…a strategic-relational approach to the state… shifts focus from the state to the topic of state power and rests on the enigmatic claim that the state is a social relation… translated into…a six-part proposition that the “state” may be fruitfully analyzed in the following terms: (1) the exercise of state power, (2) as an institutionally and discursively mediated condensation…, (3) of a changing balance of forces, (4) which seek to influence… polity, politics, and policy, (5) in specific conjunctures… themselves linked to a wider natural and social environment.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Public Administration and Governance
Globalization and political ideologies
Critical Realism in Sociology
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 57–98
- Publication date
- 4 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter