Joel S Migdal
Biographic Data
| ID | 140983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel S Migdal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel S |
| FAMILY NAME | Migdal |
| SIGNATURE | MIGDAL J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond state law
In modern urban life, people encounter strangers at every turn. How do they negotiate being thrown together into a society of strangers—to be among people they do not know and with whose cultures they are unfamiliar? Widespread acceptance of informal rules of daily behavior enables the acceptance of others—of strangers—as partners in everyday social and economic transactions. The term 'public' denotes a collective of people, linked loosely throug…
The question of authority
Authority is at the core of the human condition. In every realm of existence—social life, politics, economics—some people exercise authority over others. The exercising of authority comes in many different guises and at many different levels of human society. The epitome in the breadth and depth of exercising authority is the modern state. In some ways, it attempts to usurp the authority of all other social organizations. The topic of states exer…
Shifting Sands
Joel S. Migdal revisits the approach U.S. officials have adopted toward the Middle East since World War II, which paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. After the war, the United States did not restrict its strategic model to the Middle East. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, American presidents applied a uniform strategy rooted in the country's Cold War experience in Europe to regions across the globe, designed to project America i…
Marginal at the Center
"Marginal at the Center: The Life Story of a Public Sociologist." The European Legacy, 19(6), pp. 805–806
The Everyday Life of the State
Today there are more states controlling more people than at any other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal rules governing human interaction to the statute books of one state or another, in reality the words in these books often have little bearing upon what is happening on the ground. Their mean…
Frank Tachau 1929–2010
mourns the passing of Frank Tachau, who succumbed to complications caused by multiple myeloma on Friday 23 July 2010, at the age of 80
Researching the State
INTRODUCTION States are wonderful subjects for comparative political analysis and, at the very same time, pose all sorts of thorny problems for any researcher studying comparative politics. They are good, meaty topics because a clear template exists for what a state is or, at least, what it should be, making diverse states eminently comparable. One might think of this template as the gold standard of states. Big or little, rich or poor, strong or…
Boundaries and Belonging
The Palestinian People
In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British Mandate to the impact of Zionism and the founding of Israel. Their relationship with the J…
Whose State Is It, Anyway? Exclusion and the Construction of Graduated Citizenship in Israel
The Palestinian People
Through the Lens of Israel
State in Society
The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. That approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. Despite the triumph of concept of state in social science literature, actual states have had great difficulty in turning public policies into planned social change. The state-in-society approach points observers to the ongoing struggles over which …
State in Society
Mutual Empowerment of State and Society
State Power and Social Forces
Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem
Unsettled States, Disputed Lands
Palestinians
Palestinians
Palestinians
The state in society
Ever since Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in the seventeenth century, 150 years before the full blooming of capitalism, thinkers have grappled with the increasingly powerful state and its role in society. Following the Industrial Revolution, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and many others devoted themselves to what Karl Polanyi would later call the great transformation. Like Hobbes, they too focused on the state, now in its relationship to t…
Rules and Rights in the Middle East
Preface Introduction PART 1. OVERVIEW The Practice of Electoral Democracy in the Arab East and North Africa: Some Lessons from Nearly a Century's Experience PART 2. POWER AGAINST POWER Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961 Taxation without Representation: Authoritarianism and Economic Liberalization in Syria State, Legitimacy, and Democratization in the Maghreb Civil Society in Israel PART 3. PRACTICAL POLITICS Prospects and Difficulties of…
The Shaping of a Nation
No period was more decisive in the modern history of Palestine than the British Mandate, which lasted from the end of World War I until 1948. Not only did British rule establish the political boundaries of Palestine, the new realities forced both Jews and Arabs in the country to redefine their social boundaries and self-identity. But the cataclysmic events that continued through 1948, with the creation of Israel and what Arabs called al-Nakba (th…
On Bringing Historical Actors Back in
What Makes Peasants Revolutionary
The Palestinian People
In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British Mandate to the impact of Zionism and the founding of Israel. Their relationship with the J…
Mutual Empowerment of State and Society
Palestinians
Rules and Rights in the Middle East
Preface Introduction PART 1. OVERVIEW The Practice of Electoral Democracy in the Arab East and North Africa: Some Lessons from Nearly a Century's Experience PART 2. POWER AGAINST POWER Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961 Taxation without Representation: Authoritarianism and Economic Liberalization in Syria State, Legitimacy, and Democratization in the Maghreb Civil Society in Israel PART 3. PRACTICAL POLITICS Prospects and Difficulties of…
Peasant Revolution
Steering the Polity
Why Change
When and why people abandon their old institutions, patterns of behavior, and even places of residence in favor of new ones that are associated with sustained economic growth and development is a question of central importance to social science. Increasingly, political scientists have associated these processes of change with the occurrence of disintegration of particular political units, groups, and systems, and with the integration of others. T…
Beyond state law
In modern urban life, people encounter strangers at every turn. How do they negotiate being thrown together into a society of strangers—to be among people they do not know and with whose cultures they are unfamiliar? Widespread acceptance of informal rules of daily behavior enables the acceptance of others—of strangers—as partners in everyday social and economic transactions. The term 'public' denotes a collective of people, linked loosely throug…
Whose State Is It, Anyway? Exclusion and the Construction of Graduated Citizenship in Israel
Vision and Practice
Visionary leaders have sought to use the modern state as the organization through which they could transform society. However, world historical forces largely beyond the control of such leaders have greatly affected their success in using the state to bring about intended social transformations, which constitute the core of their visions. Three such forces have affected the international and domestic environment leaders face, and have influenced …
Palestinian Society and Politics
The Shaping of a Nation
No period was more decisive in the modern history of Palestine than the British Mandate, which lasted from the end of World War I until 1948. Not only did British rule establish the political boundaries of Palestine, the new realities forced both Jews and Arabs in the country to redefine their social boundaries and self-identity. But the cataclysmic events that continued through 1948, with the creation of Israel and what Arabs called al-Nakba (th…
Urbanization and Political Change
With the continuing rapid growth of cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, social scientists have expected a clear shift of political power from rural to urban-based groups. The usual assumption is that this shift would stem from the process of urban economic growth which would lead to political centralization and political integration, both centered in the city. Such assumptions are found most explicitly in many ofthe theories of modernizati…
Internal Structure and External Behaviour
Internal Structure and External Behaviour
Why Change
When and why people abandon their old institutions, patterns of behavior, and even places of residence in favor of new ones that are associated with sustained economic growth and development is a question of central importance to social science. Increasingly, political scientists have associated these processes of change with the occurrence of disintegration of particular political units, groups, and systems, and with the integration of others. T…
Peasants, Politics, and Revolution
Peasants, Politics, and Revolution
Peasant Revolution
Urbanization and Political Change
With the continuing rapid growth of cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, social scientists have expected a clear shift of political power from rural to urban-based groups. The usual assumption is that this shift would stem from the process of urban economic growth which would lead to political centralization and political integration, both centered in the city. Such assumptions are found most explicitly in many ofthe theories of modernizati…
Peasant Politics
Peasants, Politics, and Revolution
During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vulnerable peasant population has chosen to leave the confines of the village for political activity and at times for sustained revolution is the question this book explores. The author draws on informal interviews and observation of peasants in Mexico and India and on fifty-one community studies of peasan…
The Question of Palestine, by Edward W. Said
Journal Article The Question of Palestine, by Edward W. Said Get access The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said. New York, Times Books, 1979. 265 pp. $12.50 Joel S. Migdal Joel S. Migdal University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 4, Winter 1980, Pages 726–727, https://doi.org/10.2307/2150647 Published: 15 December 1980
Palestinian Society and Politics
Fellowships and Grants Awarded
Research on Jewish community in T r i p o l i , Libya. Field research in T u r k e y on Middle East textiles. One-year excavation project at Akhmim, Egypt. Interdisciplinary study by archeologists
Palestinians Without Palestine
What Makes Peasants Revolutionary
Steering the Polity
Individual change in the midst of social and political change
Scholarship about rapid social and political change, especially in the Third World since 1945, often fails to consider adequately the role of the individual man or woman. This article assesses the work of Daniel Lerner, Lucian Pye, David McClelland, M. N. Srinivas, Clyde Mitchell, Alex Inkeles, and David Smith. Despite their notable contributions, these scholars sometimes made assumptions that are open to challenge. One was that change was unidir…
Strong societies and weak states
Vision and Practice
Visionary leaders have sought to use the modern state as the organization through which they could transform society. However, world historical forces largely beyond the control of such leaders have greatly affected their success in using the state to bring about intended social transformations, which constitute the core of their visions. Three such forces have affected the international and domestic environment leaders face, and have influenced …
Strong Societies and Weak States
Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offe…
Unruly Corporatism
On Bringing Historical Actors Back in
Paradise Lost
Palestine's Unfinished Rebellions
Palestinians
Palestinians
The state in society
Ever since Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan in the seventeenth century, 150 years before the full blooming of capitalism, thinkers have grappled with the increasingly powerful state and its role in society. Following the Industrial Revolution, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and many others devoted themselves to what Karl Polanyi would later call the great transformation. Like Hobbes, they too focused on the state, now in its relationship to t…
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