Modernity and the State
"Claus Offe was one of the first to recognize the coming crisis of the welfare state, almost 20 years ago. Modernity and the State: East, West convincingly shows that the return to the utopia of the self regulating market in East and West is incompatible with democratic legitimacy and stability. This work is an outstanding attempt to move beyond the antinomy of state vs. market oriented conceptions of social policy." Andrew Arato, New School for Social Research
"For around forty years now, Claus Offe has been one of the most observant, acute, original and uncompromisingly self-critical observers and analysts of the subtle shifts and fierce turbulences of contemporary politics ... [This book] vividly illustrates that never-ending, excruciating torment of self-scrutiny and self-reprobation, which is the un-chosen but inescapable mark of good political sociology." Times Literary Supplement
"Offe always stimulates." German Politics
"This essay is vintage Offe." Political Studies
"Provides food for thought." The Slavonic Review
This volume addresses the problem of how modern societies politically cohere and poses one of the most fundamental questions of contemporary political analysis: how can legitimate authority coexist with effective governing capacity? In addressing this question, Offe draws on a wide variety of material in both political theory and empirical sociology. Les mer
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Modernity and the State will be welcomed by students and scholars in social and political theory, political sociology and East European studies.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Polity Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780745616742
- Utgivelsesår
- 1996
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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"Claus Offe was one of the first to recognize the coming crisis of the welfare state, almost 20 years ago. Modernity and the State: East, West convincingly shows that the return to the utopia of the self regulating market in East and West is incompatible with democratic legitimacy and stability. This work is an outstanding attempt to move beyond the antinomy of state vs. market oriented conceptions of social policy." Andrew Arato, New School for Social Research
"For around forty years now, Claus Offe has been one of the most observant, acute, original and uncompromisingly self-critical observers and analysts of the subtle shifts and fierce turbulences of contemporary politics ... [This book] vividly illustrates that never-ending, excruciating torment of self-scrutiny and self-reprobation, which is the un-chosen but inescapable mark of good political sociology." Times Literary Supplement
"Offe always stimulates." German Politics
"This essay is vintage Offe." Political Studies
"Provides food for thought." The Slavonic Review