Preface

Introduction

1. Bringing the state back in: strategies of analysis in current research Theda Skocpol

Part I. States as Promoters of Economic Development and Social Redistribution: 2. The state and economic transformation: toward an analysis of the conditions underlying effective intervention Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Peter B. Evans

3. The state and Taiwan's economic development Alice H. Amsden

4. State structures and the possibilities for 'Keynesian' responses to the great depression in Sweden, Britain and the United States Margaret Weir and Theda Skocpol

Part II. States and Transnational Relations: 5. War making and state making as organized crime Charles Tilly

6. Transnational linkages and the economic role of the state: an analysis of developing and industrialized nations in the post-World War II period Peter B. Evans

7. Small nations in an open international economy: the converging balance of state and society in Switzerland and Austria Peter Katzenstein

Part III. States and the Patterning of Social Conflicts: 8. Working-class formation and the state: nineteenth-century England in American perspective Ira Katznelson

9. Hegemony and religious conflict: british imperial control and political cleavages in Yorubaland David D. Laitin

10. State power and the strength of civil society in the southern cone of Latin America Alfred Stepan

Conclusion

11. On the road toward a more adequate understanding of the state Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol

Index.