Table of Contents

Note on contributors; 1. Introduction Graeme Duncan; Part I. Theorising the State: 2. Do we need a theory of the state? C. B. Macpherson; 3. The fall and rise of the state in international politics Steve Smith; Part II. Classics and Grand Theories: 4. Republicanism, liberalism and capitalism: a defence of parliamentarianism Bernard Crick; 5. Marx and the state Ralph Miliband; 6. Mill, Marx and the state Graeme Duncan; 7. Max Weber and the capitalist state Tom Bottomore; 8. The state and legitimation: the work of Jurgen Habermas Philip K. Lawrence; 9. Fabian socialism, democracy and the state John Callaghan; Part III. Capital and Labour: 10. State workers: class position and collective action Peter Fairbrother; 11. Controlling interests: technology, state control and democracy John Street; 12. Is there a corporatist theory of the state? Alan Cawson; 13. Political organisation and economic policy Paul Boreham, Stewart Clegg and Geoff Dow; 14. Industrial democracy and the capitalist state April Carter; 15. A defence of the welfare state Graeme Duncan; Index.

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This book examines one of the key issues in the analysis of the capitalist state: its relationship with democracy.