{"product_id":"states-and-collective-action-the-european-experience-hardback-9780521325486","title":"States and Collective Action; The European Experience (Hardback) 9780521325486","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStates and Collective Action\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe European Experience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirnbaum argues that it is only through divergent state-formation that regional and national state variations can be explained.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePierre Birnbaum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521325486, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 April 1988\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.485 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Pierre Birnbaum is at the forefront of comparative-historical work on states and social movements. These creative essays are sure to provoke interest - and  arguments - from a broad interdisciplinary audience. It's wonderful to have them in one compact English-language volume.' Theda Skocpol, Department of Sociology, Harvard\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIt has become something of an orthodoxy of contemporary sociology that modern democratic industrial societies are essentially alike, and that they are confronted by uniform challenges, whether industrial (strikes and demonstrations), social (the 'crisis of the welfare state'), or political. In this important collection of studies Professor Birnbaum asserts, however, that the very existence of differentiation, challenge such a hypothesis. Linking historical and sociological investigation, Birnbaum argues that it is only through divergent state-formation that regional and national state variations in, for example, industrial conflict, policing or ideological configuration can be explained. His analysis of the influence of each type of state upon the development of various collective action and mobilisation processes establishes the crucial importance of the state as a quasi-independent variable.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mobilisation theory and the state: the missing element\u003cbr\u003e 2. States, free riders and collective movements\u003cbr\u003e 3. The state and mobilisation for war: the case of the French Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ideology, collective action and the state: Germany, England, France\u003cbr\u003e 5. Individual action, collective action and worker's strategy: the United States, Great Britain and France\u003cbr\u003e 6. The state versus corporatism: France and England\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Nazi collective movement against the Prussian state\u003cbr\u003e 8. Territorial and ethnic mobilisation in Scotland, Brittany and Catalonia\u003cbr\u003e 9. Nation, state and culture: the example of Zionism\u003cbr\u003e 10. The state, the police and the West Indians: collective movements in Great Britain\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the end of the state? from differentiation to dedifferentiation\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007090938136,"sku":"9780521325486","price":63.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521325486_f5d04db5-d5fa-42fc-9bec-9ad7ea3c6231.gif?v=1691375198","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/states-and-collective-action-the-european-experience-hardback-9780521325486","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}