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Leviathan transformed : seven national states in the new century / edited by Theodore Caplow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative charting of social changePublication details: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773569850
  • 0773569855
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Leviathan transformed.DDC classification:
  • 320.3 21
LOC classification:
  • JC311 .L488 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Weak state/strong society / Alberto Martinelli -- The German state in comparative perspective in the year 2000 / Karl Otto Hondrich -- Six aspects of the Spanish state / Salustiano del Campo and Juan Manuel Camacho -- The U.S. government at the turn of the century / Theodore Caplow -- The contemporary Canadian state: redefining a social and political union / Simon Langlois -- The Bulgarian state at the turn of the century / Nicolai Genov -- Grading the French leviathan / Henri Mendras.
Summary: Leviathan Transformed is based on the premise that a national state is a particular type of organization and, at any given time and like any other organization, its performance can be evaluated with reasonable objectivity. The authors, an international team of eminent social scientists, examine the performance of seven states: Bulgaria, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. These nations pursue similar goals - union, justice, tranquillity, defence, welfare, liberty - which, in one form or another, are common to all democracies.
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Weak state/strong society / Alberto Martinelli -- The German state in comparative perspective in the year 2000 / Karl Otto Hondrich -- Six aspects of the Spanish state / Salustiano del Campo and Juan Manuel Camacho -- The U.S. government at the turn of the century / Theodore Caplow -- The contemporary Canadian state: redefining a social and political union / Simon Langlois -- The Bulgarian state at the turn of the century / Nicolai Genov -- Grading the French leviathan / Henri Mendras.

Leviathan Transformed is based on the premise that a national state is a particular type of organization and, at any given time and like any other organization, its performance can be evaluated with reasonable objectivity. The authors, an international team of eminent social scientists, examine the performance of seven states: Bulgaria, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. These nations pursue similar goals - union, justice, tranquillity, defence, welfare, liberty - which, in one form or another, are common to all democracies.

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