Leibfried S., Huber E., Lange M., Levy J.D., Nullmeier F., Stephens J.D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 880 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-969158-6.This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a changing international environment as well as with changing domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist, liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in different areas of state intervention, from security to financial regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development. The volume makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention, its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new international and domestic challenges.Preface / Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens
Introduction: Transformations of the state / Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens
Changing perspectives on the state / Jonah D. Levy, Stephan Leibfried, and Frank Nullmeier
Varieties of state experience / John A. Hall
The layered state: pathways and patterns of modern nation state building / Philip Manow and Daniel Ziblatt
The emergence of the new world states / Andrew S. Kelly and James Mahoney
State formation and transformation in Africa and Asia: the third phase of state expansion / Matthew Lange
State theory: four analytical traditions / Matthias Vom Hau
Limited statehood: a critical perspective / Thomas Risse
State transformations in comparative perspective / Jonah D. Levy
Internationalization and the state: sovereignty as the external side of modern statehood / Michael Zürn and Nicole Deitelhoff
Sovereign (in)equality in the evolution of the international system / Lora Anne Viola, Duncan Snidal, and Michael Zürn
The competition state: the modern state in a global economy / Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf
The embedded state: the new division of labor in the provision of governance functions / Tine Hanrieder and Bernhard Zangl
Multilevel governance and the state / Arjan H. Schakel, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks
Beyond the state? Are transnational regulatory institutions replacing the state? / Walter Mattli
Security, intervention, and the responsibility to protect: transforming the state by reinterpreting sovereignty / Christopher Daase
Ambiguous transformations: the 2007/08 international financial crisis and changing economic roles of the state / Eric Helleiner
Environmental risks and the changing interface of domestic and international governance / Klaus Dingwerth and Helge Jörgens
State transformations among the affluent democracies / Jonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens, and Stephan Leibfried
The transformations of the statist model / Jonah D. Levy
From industrial corporatism to the social investment state / Jingjing Huo and John D. Stephens
The changing role of the state in liberal market economies / Peter A. Hall
ISI states reverse course: from import substitution to open economy / Herman Schwartz and Sebastián Etchemendy
Welfare state transformation: convergence and the rise of the supply-side model / Herbert Obinger and Peter Starke
The state and gender equality: from patriarchal to women-friendly state? / Julia S. O'Connor
From the positive to the regulatory state: a transformation in the machinery of governance? / Katharina Holzinger and Susanne K. Schmidt
Migration and the porous boundaries of democratic states / Rainer Bauböck
Plurinational states / Michael Keating
The changing architecture of the national security state / Andreas Busch
Transformations of the democratic state / Frank Nullmeier, Steffen Schneider, and Andreas Hepp
The peculiarities of post-communist state development: institutional consolidation and elite competition / Anna Grzymała-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong
The transformation of the state in Eastern Europe / Milada Anna Vachudova
Resources as constraints? Natural resource wealth and the possibility of developmental states in the former Soviet Union / Pauline Jones Luong
The transformation of the Russian state / Brian D. Taylor
China: economic liberalization, adaptive informal institutions, and party-state resilience / Kellee S. Tsai
States in the global south: transformations, trends, and diversity / Matthew Lange
Human development, state transformation, and the politics of the developmental state / Peter B. Evans and Patrick Heller
Rentier states and state transformations / David Waldner and Benjamin Smith
Predatory states and state transformation / William Reno
State failure and state transformation / Sven Chojnacki and Anne Menzel
Ethnicity and state transformation in the global south / Matthew Lange and Klaus Schlichte
Democracy and regime change in the global south: causes and trends / Grigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme B. Robertson
Emerging welfare states in Latin America and East Asia / Evelyne Huber and Sara Niedzwiecki
Conclusion: States transforming / Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens