Conjectures on the Nation‐State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6267166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert E Goodin (0000-0002-1704-5817, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-34 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1995.tb00430.x |
| OpenAlex | W2104079956 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
WHAT FOLLOW ARE LESS ‘THESES’ THAN ‘CONJECTURES’, speculations both tentative and disjointed. Like a mathematician's conjectures, however, they admit of being systematically ordered into a larger theory as well as being elaborated more fully, one-by-one. Here I shall, without elaboration, at least sketch the outlines of that larger theory.The general tenor of all these conjectures is to query an ethos, prevailing for the past two centuries or more, effectively encapsulated in the slogan, ‘Every state a nation, every nation a state’. Starting with the American and Latin American revolutions and continuing through the twentieth century's own wars of national liberation, the continuing motif has been one of freeing ‘a People’ from ‘alien rule’. Champions of ‘political unification’, from Mazzini's Italy to Kohl's Germany, have likewise taken as their rallying cry the uniting of a single people under a single government. That is the ‘every nation a state’ side of the story
Ethos · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sketch · Slogan · Sociology · State (computer science · Unification · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism
Old societies and new states
Social Limits to Growth
National Self-determination
Social Limits to Growth
Cooperation under Anarchy
What is So Special about Our Fellow Countrymen?
The Invention Of Tradition
From Empire to Nation
Collective Action
The Ethical Significance of Nationality
Nationalism
Nation and community in the international order
The Politics of Rational Man
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Imagined communities
The Nature of Political Theory
The Displacement of Traditional Law in Modern India
Coordination versus Prisoners' Dilemma
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Administration of Hindu Law by the British
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |