Do We Need a Theory of the State?
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 18 (2) , 222-244
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003975600003210
Abstract
My Questionis not whether we need a theoretical understanding of the political process in modern states, but whether we need a theory of the state in the grand manner of the acknowledged ‘great’ theories, ranging in modern times from, say, Bodin and Hobbes to Hegel and the nineteenth century juristic theories of sovereignty, and on to the less ‘great’, but in intention equally grand, theories of Green and Bosanquet and such twentieth century thinkers as Barker and Lindsay and MacIver.Keywords
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