From a popular comedy troupe that found fame with a stint on MTV comes for the first time a printed version of its irreverent, topical, and odd-ball humor in the form of a mock travel guide covering all fifty states in America.
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York ...
The State and Economic Transformation : Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Intervention Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Peter B. Evans Effective state intervention is now assumed to be an integral part of successful ...
1 FROM PRIVATISING THE ECONOMY TO PRIVATISING THE STATE : AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTINUAL FORMATION OF THE STATE * Béatrice Hibou Today analyses of economic globalisation or internationalisation observe that the ...
State. in. Bangladesh. Naila. Kabeer. INTRODUCTION This chapter examines the complex interactions between religion and culture in constructing definitions of national identity in Bangladesh and in shaping the political projects of recent ...
The past fifteen or more centuries have seen a succession of Hindu , Buddhist , and Islamic monarchies , and colonial administrations , all seeking to assert the primacy of central state structures . Scholars such as Oliver W. Wolters and Stanley ...
10 Contemporary Challenges to the State At the close of the twentieth century , the prospects of the state appear mixed , both in the liberal - democratic systems and in the party - states . In both , although to a different extent and in different ...
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO The State in Myanmar The State in Myanmar is an extended version of The State in Burma . The latter was written in 1985 / 86 and published in 1987 . It has been revised to reflect the results of ...
1 What's at stake in the ' second state debate ' ?: concepts and issues Introduction : the two ' state debates within the social sciences If ' the state is dead ' , as so many International Relations ( IR ) scholars today contend , why do we need a ...