State Transformations in OECD Countries: Dimensions, Driving Forces, and Trajectories - Transformations of the State

The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internationalized and privatized. The thirteen chapters of this edited collection deal with major transformations of governance arrangements and state responsibilities in the countries of the OECD world. A unified conceptual and explanatory framework is used to describe trajectories of state change, to explain the internationalization or privatization of responsibilities in the resource, law, legitimacy and welfare dimensions of the democratic nation state, and to probe the state's role in the today's post-national constellation of political authority. As the contributions show, an unravelling of state authority has indeed occurred, but the state nevertheless continues to play a key role in emerging governance arrangements. Hence it is not merely a 'victim' of globalization and other driving forces of change.

ISBN:	9781137012418
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Published date:	20 Mar 2015
DEWEY:	320.9177
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiv, 317
Weight:	520g
Height:	146mm
Width:	222mm
Spine width:	23mm

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