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The State as a Conceptual Variable
Abstract
The concept of state is not much in vogue in the social sciences right now. Yet it retains a skeletal, ghostly existence largely because, for all the changes in emphasis and interest of research, the thing exists and no amount of conceptual restructuring can dissolve it. The present article develops a conceptual approach in which no violence is done to historical or empirical fact, but which offers a means of integrating the concept of state into the current primacy of social science concerns and analytical methods. It is hoped that this approach not only will provide a convenient conceptualization, but will contribute to attacking a substantive problem of some consequence. Since the relevant area is potentially huge, no more than a brushstroke configuration can be attempted.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nettl, J. P.
- Venue
- World Politics
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 1968-07
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 559-592
- ISSN
- 0043-8871 (ISSN-L)
- 1086-3338
- OpenAlex
- W2169617572
- Cited by
- 678
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 7.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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