Description:
What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the...
Brief description: George Steinmetz is Associate Professor of Sociology and German Studies at the University of Michigan and author of Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany.
Review Quotes:
This important volume... seeks to revitalize the study of state formation by allowing it to partake of the fruits of the cultural turn. In its ambitions this collection bears a strong resemblance to Peter Evans, Dietrick Rueschemayer, and Theda Skocpol's Bringing the State Back In of 1985, and its impact should be equally great... The richness of this volume's contributions should provide inspiration to all those who seek to reinvigorate the study of the state and state formation.
--Thomas Ertman, New York University "American Journal of Sociology"