State transformations : : classes, strategy, socialism / / edited by Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 189
• TeilnehmendeR: Albo, Gregory,; Maher, Stephen, 1985-; Zuege, Alan, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 189.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004462260
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege.

"It is often remarked that critical - and especially Marxist - state theory began to lose its central place in the study of comparative politics in the 1980s. Ironically, this shift occurred just as neoliberal policies were transforming the social form and spatial scales of the state, radically restructuring the practices of state economic intervention, and extending the capabilities of the coercive arms of the state. This volume addresses the 'impoverishment of state theory' over the last decades and insists on the continued salience of class analysis to the study of states. The book's title, State Transformations, reflects several central themes in the comparative study of states: the neoliberal restructuring of capitalist states, the changing economic and political architecture of imperialism, and the prospects of a democratic transformation of capitalist states. The essays collected here on these themes are in honor and memory of Leo Panitch, whose influential body of work has shaped debates on the state, imperialism, and socialism over the past four decades. Contributors are: Clyde W. Barrow, Caio Bugiato, Frank Deppe, Ruth Felder, Ana Garcia, Sam Gindin, Doug Henwood, Martijn Konings, Colin Leys, Sebnem Oguz, Bryan D. Palmer, Dennis Pilon, Larry Savage, Charles Smith, Michalis Spourdalakis and Hilary Wainwright"-- Provided by publisher.