Smith, Martin John orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-6118 (2016) The State After Modernism. Asian Journal of Political Science. pp. 330-339. ISSN 0218-5377
Abstract
In his book Democratic Governance Mark Bevir has highlighted a number of key issues facing those of us who want to understand the state and its role in governing. Not only has the role of the state changed significantly in the last 30 years but those changes need to be understood in terms of the implications for the nature of the state’s interaction with society and the ways in which the state exercises power within a democratic context. Perhaps what Bevir highlights most is how the conceptions of the state amongst elites is being challenged by changes in the form of government but more importantly by changes in the nature of knowledge and how citizens understand their relationship to the state. Whilst Mark Bevir is right to acknowledge the role and influence of ideas, he has a tendency to overemphasize their impact and as a consequence pays insufficient attention to the role that institutions and structures more generally play in mediating the way in which beliefs and ideas affect outcomes. This simplification leads to an overestimation of the degree of change that has occurred in Britain in particular and in states in general.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Governance,Institutions,Modernism,Power,State |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2016 12:32 |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2024 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2016.1231069 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02185377.2016.1231069 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105315 |