Do We Need a Theory of the State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4180992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C B Macpherson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 222-244 |
| Publication date | 1977-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975600003210 |
| OpenAlex | W2162900908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 4 |
MyQuestionis not whether we need a theoretical understanding of the political process in modern states, but whether we need a theory of the state in the grand manner of the acknowledged 'great' theories, ranging in modern times from, say, Bodin and Hobbes to Hegel and the nineteenth century juristic theories of sovereignty, and on to the less 'great', but in intention equally grand, theories of Green and Bosanquet and such twentieth century thinkers as Barker and Lindsay and MacIver
Epistemology · Hegelianism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · State of nature · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
Technophilia and technophobia
The Necessity of Welfare
From "Bringing" to "Putting
The Urban Basis of Political Alignment
The Contradictory Imperatives of Welfare and Economic Policy in the Mixed Economy
Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling
Recent theories of the state
Liberal Ideology, Radical Critiques and Change in Education
Reform or Reformation
Developments in Advanced Capitalist Ideology
Embedded Statism and the Social Sciences 2
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2000 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |