World Polity Matters
Another Look at the Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xue Li (0000-0003-2994-8930, Fudan University, corresponding author), A Hicks (0000-0002-8941-9566, Emory University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 596-607 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003122416641371 |
| OpenAlex | W2344320846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
Did the nation-state spread due to global diffusion? Wimmer and Feinstein's 2010 ASR article concludes that there are no "world polity" influences on the rise of the nation-state; rather, the spread of the nation-state was driven by proximate and contextual political factors situated at the local and regional levels, in line with historical institutionalist arguments. Here, after arguing that Wimmer and Feinstein misspecify the historical domain of the world polity theory, we reanalyze their data and find that world polity has played a consistent role in the global rise of the nation-state since WWII. Specifically, global diffusion processes complement the more local and regional varieties of causal processes stressed by historical institutionalist theorists. We measure the institutionalization of world polity with inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and processes through which potential nation-states mimic existing nation-states. IGO membership and existing nation-states show positive significance in the post-1945 period, and all three measures significantly facilitate nation-state creation for 1953 to 2001, the period for which INGO data are available. Results affirm the importance of state legitimacy secured by adapting the global model of the nation-state
Economic system · Economics · Institutionalisation · Legitimacy · Nation state · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Situated · Sociology · State (computer science · World War II · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Mathematics · Political Conflict and Governance
O transnacional na história da educação
Organizational theory in political sociology
The Relation between Imperialism and Nationalism in the German Empire and its Aftermath
The Diffusion of Exclusion
The Politics of World Polity
Anticolonial Nationalism From Imagined Communities to Colonial Conflict
Transnational Backlash and the Deinstitutionalization of Liberal Norms
Domains of Diffusion
The World System and the Hollowing Out of State Capacity
Constructing the nation-state
Taking Time Seriously
National and Global Origins of Environmental Association
Global Patterns of Decolonization, 1500-1987
Norms, culture, and world politics
World Culture in the World Polity
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001
Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005
Cross-national Differences in the Expansion of Science, 1970-1990
The Sacralization of the Individual
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
World Society and the Nation-State
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |