Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I Introduction -- 1 The State-in-Society Approach -- State-in-Society as an Approach to Studying Domination and Change -- A New Definition of the State -- Method in Comparative Studies -- New Answers to Old Questions: Research Using the State-in-Society Approach -- Issue 1: Growing Ethnic Violence -- Issue 2: The Growing Power of the Judiciary -- Issue 3: State and Nation -- Conclusion -- PART II Rethinking Social and Political Change -- 2 A Model of State-Society Relations -- Introduction: Images of the Impact of State on Society -- Explaining Order and Change through Dichotomous Models of Society -- The Center-Periphery Model -- States and Societies: Organizations in a Melange -- The Constraints on States -- Survival of Local Control -- Lack of a Strong Political Base -- Conclusion: New Directions for Research -- 3 Strong States, Weak States -- Two Images of the State -- The Dilemma of State Leaders -- At the Apex: The Politics of Survival -- The Big Shuffle -- Nonmerit Appointments -- Overlapping Bureaucratic Functions: Building a Praetorian Giant -- Dirty Tricks -- Building Coalitions and a Domestic Balance of Power -- The Politics of Administration -- Politics at the Local Level: Accommodation and the Capture of the State -- Conclusion -- PART III A Process-Oriented Approach -- 4 An Anthropology of the State -- Society -- The State -- The Junctures of States and Societies -- 5 Why Do So Many States Stay Intact? -- A Global Environment Empowering States -- The Organizational Imperatives of the State -- Inefficient States Keep on Going -- Constituting the State -- 1. Law -- 2. Public Ritual -- 3. Informal Behavior in the Public Sphere -- Conclusion -- PART IV Linking Micro- and Macro-Level Change.

6 Individual Change in the Midst of Social and Political Change -- Daniel Lerner and the Beginnings of a Model of Individual Change -- The Probelmatic Nature and Selectivity of Individual Change: Theories of Lucian W. Pye and David McClelland -- New and Unsettling Findings -- Becoming Modern: Another Attempt at Understanding Individual Change -- Toward a New Understanding of the Individual and Individual Change -- PART V Studying the State -- 7 Studying the Politics of Development and Change -- Approaching the Study of Development and Change -- Three Major Research Currents -- From the Third World to the First (and Second) -- The Return to History -- Adding an International Perspective -- Back to First Principles -- 8 Studying the State -- Rhetoric and Reality of Modern States -- Explaining How the State Is Constituted -- The Culturalist Perspective -- The System-Dominant Structuralist Perspective -- The Rationalist Perspective -- The Historical Institutionalist Perspective -- The Limited State: Engagement of State and Society -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.