Thomas Ertman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3739868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Ertman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ertman |
| SIGNATURE | ERTMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Weber's Economic Ethos of the World Religions
Over the last decade of his life, Max Weber had embarked on two massive projects, both with a central non-Western component and neither of which he was able to complete. One of these was his contribution to the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik (Outline of Social Economy), later published as Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society). Parallel to this, Weber was engaged in another, more explicitly comparative, project: a series of studies colle…
Living and Dead in Max Weber’s Economic Ethic of the World Religions
Max Weber’s The Economic Ethic of the World Religions: A Neglected Social Science Classic?
Max Weber's Economic Ethic of the World Religions: An Analysis
This book brings together for the first time in English internationally-recognized specialists who seek to identify what is 'living' and what is 'dead' in the great German social scientist Max Weber's analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel found in his massive, unfinished Economic Ethic of the World Religions. In so doing, the volume offers a powerful new perspective on the current debate concerning the timing of and deeper roots of the 'Gre…
The Great Reform Act of 1832 and British Democratization
This article focuses on the brief period (1828-1835) of intense political change in the years immediately before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832 as a critical juncture within the process of British democratization. This change was set in motion by a movement to extend the rights of religious minorities, but soon took on a dynamic of its own and led, quite unexpectedly, to a fundamental break in the constitutional order of the United Kingdo…
Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States
This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state–church conflicts…
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a …
Building States—Inherently a Long-Term Process? An Argument from Comparative History
In his contribution to this volume,Dietrich Rueschemeyer has presented an "argument from theory" that explores the extent to which state building is an inherently long-term process.At first glance,the European experience would seem to imply that it most certainly is,since most of the continent's polities can point to developmental histories that span many centuries. Yet Rueschemeyer is not interested in just any kind of state building, but rather…
Eastern Germany Ten Years After Unification
On October 3, 1990 the territory of the German Democratic Republic was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany, thereby ending forty-five years of German division. At the time, assessments varied widely about whether the wholesale introduction of the West German political, legal, and socioeconomic systems into the formerly communist east would be a success, and what the implications of success or failure would be for the new united Germ…
Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited
Almost none of the conditions that, according to the latest research, favor democratic durability were present in Western Europe between the world wars. Yet only four Western European states became dictatorships during this period, whereas the others remained democratic despite economic crisis, an unhelpful international system, and the lure of nondemocratic alternatives. Several recent works offer new explanations for this pattern of interwar ou…
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman arg…
Cages of Reason: The Rise of the Rational State in France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain
Preface Introduction Pt. 1: Bureaucratic Structure as a Contingent Problem 1: Organization Theory and Bureaucratic Structure 2: Political Uncertainty, Leadership Succession, and the Modes of Administration 3: Strategies of Uncertainty Pt. 2: Strategies of High Uncertainty France 4: Revolutionary Change and Structural Ambiguity: Revolutionary and Napoleonic Transformations 5: Post-Napoleonic Period Japan 6: Meiji Restoration as the Revolutionary M…
Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany
Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social programmes? How are elite and popular conceptions of social reality related to welfare policies? George Steinmetz approaches these and other issues by exploring the complex origins and development of local and national social policies in 19th-century Germany. Generally regarded as the birthp…
Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990-1990, by Charles Tilly
Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited
Almost none of the conditions that, according to the latest research, favor democratic durability were present in Western Europe between the world wars. Yet only four Western European states became dictatorships during this period, whereas the others remained democratic despite economic crisis, an unhelpful international system, and the lure of nondemocratic alternatives. Several recent works offer new explanations for this pattern of interwar ou…
The Great Reform Act of 1832 and British Democratization
This article focuses on the brief period (1828-1835) of intense political change in the years immediately before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832 as a critical juncture within the process of British democratization. This change was set in motion by a movement to extend the rights of religious minorities, but soon took on a dynamic of its own and led, quite unexpectedly, to a fundamental break in the constitutional order of the United Kingdo…
Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990-1990, by Charles Tilly
Cages of Reason: The Rise of the Rational State in France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain
Preface Introduction Pt. 1: Bureaucratic Structure as a Contingent Problem 1: Organization Theory and Bureaucratic Structure 2: Political Uncertainty, Leadership Succession, and the Modes of Administration 3: Strategies of Uncertainty Pt. 2: Strategies of High Uncertainty France 4: Revolutionary Change and Structural Ambiguity: Revolutionary and Napoleonic Transformations 5: Post-Napoleonic Period Japan 6: Meiji Restoration as the Revolutionary M…
Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany
Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social programmes? How are elite and popular conceptions of social reality related to welfare policies? George Steinmetz approaches these and other issues by exploring the complex origins and development of local and national social policies in 19th-century Germany. Generally regarded as the birthp…
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman arg…
Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited
Almost none of the conditions that, according to the latest research, favor democratic durability were present in Western Europe between the world wars. Yet only four Western European states became dictatorships during this period, whereas the others remained democratic despite economic crisis, an unhelpful international system, and the lure of nondemocratic alternatives. Several recent works offer new explanations for this pattern of interwar ou…
Eastern Germany Ten Years After Unification
On October 3, 1990 the territory of the German Democratic Republic was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany, thereby ending forty-five years of German division. At the time, assessments varied widely about whether the wholesale introduction of the West German political, legal, and socioeconomic systems into the formerly communist east would be a success, and what the implications of success or failure would be for the new united Germ…
Building States—Inherently a Long-Term Process? An Argument from Comparative History
In his contribution to this volume,Dietrich Rueschemeyer has presented an "argument from theory" that explores the extent to which state building is an inherently long-term process.At first glance,the European experience would seem to imply that it most certainly is,since most of the continent's polities can point to developmental histories that span many centuries. Yet Rueschemeyer is not interested in just any kind of state building, but rather…
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a …
Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States
This book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems. The interplay of societal cleavage structures and electoral rules produced the different political class coalitions sustaining the three welfare regimes of the Western world. In countries with proportional electoral systems the absence or presence of state–church conflicts…
The Great Reform Act of 1832 and British Democratization
This article focuses on the brief period (1828-1835) of intense political change in the years immediately before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832 as a critical juncture within the process of British democratization. This change was set in motion by a movement to extend the rights of religious minorities, but soon took on a dynamic of its own and led, quite unexpectedly, to a fundamental break in the constitutional order of the United Kingdo…
Living and Dead in Max Weber’s Economic Ethic of the World Religions
Max Weber’s The Economic Ethic of the World Religions: A Neglected Social Science Classic?
Max Weber's Economic Ethic of the World Religions: An Analysis
This book brings together for the first time in English internationally-recognized specialists who seek to identify what is 'living' and what is 'dead' in the great German social scientist Max Weber's analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel found in his massive, unfinished Economic Ethic of the World Religions. In so doing, the volume offers a powerful new perspective on the current debate concerning the timing of and deeper roots of the 'Gre…
Weber's Economic Ethos of the World Religions
Over the last decade of his life, Max Weber had embarked on two massive projects, both with a central non-Western component and neither of which he was able to complete. One of these was his contribution to the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik (Outline of Social Economy), later published as Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society). Parallel to this, Weber was engaged in another, more explicitly comparative, project: a series of studies colle…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Economic history (6 works) · European Political History Analysis (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)