Theories of the State

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Theories of the State is written by Patrick Dunleavy and published by New Amsterdam Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0941533859 (ISBN 10) and 9780941533850 (ISBN 13).

This book offers the first accessible, systematic study of the five schools of thought that dominate modern political science in the West. The authors give an account of the intellectual origins and the methodology of pluralism, the New Right, elitism, Marxism, and neo-pluralism–concentrating on the models of political mobilization, state organization, and crisis that are posited by each. Dunleavy and O'Leary end with a strikingly original evaluation of rival analyses of the state, providing a new frame of reference for the study of political controversy in liberal democracies.