The state debate - Simon Clarke

Book presenting some of the key approaches to the capitalist state developed in the 1970s debates within the Conference of Socialist Economists.

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Edited by Simon Clarke. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1991.

1: The State Debate ... 1
Simon Clarke

2: Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas’s Theory of the State ... 62
Simon Clarke

3: Capital, Crisis and the State ... 97
John Holloway and Sol Picciotto

4: The Fordist Security State and New Social Movements ... 127
Joachim Hirsch

5: Accumulation Strategies, State Forms and Hegemonic Projects ... 140
Bob Jessop

6: State, Class Struggle, and the Reproduction of Capital ... 163
Simon Clarke

7: A Note on the Theory of Capitalist States ... 182
Colin Barker

8: The Internationalisation of Capital and the International State System ... 192
Sol Picciotto

9: The State and Everyday Struggle ... 201
John Holloway

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