FRONT COVER -- BEYOND THE NATION-STATE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE WORLD POLITY AND POLITICAL CULTURE -- THE WORLD POLITY AND THE DIFFUSION OF WORLD CULTURE -- DECOUPLING AS NORMAL -- DECOUPLING AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL POLITIES -- DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION AND THEIR EFFECTS -- THE DISPERSION OF CHARISMA -- MODELS OF NATIONHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP: THE NATION-STATESOLCITIZEN MODEL -- ''GUARDIAN STATES'': THE ROLE OF POLITICAL ELITES -- NEW MODELS OF NATIONHOOD: FROM NATIONAL CITIZEN TO GLOBAL CITIZEN -- FROM ''MELTING POT'' TO ''MOSAIC'' -- DECLINE OF THE ''GUARDIAN STATE'' -- NATIONAL CONTENTIOUSNESS OVER NATIONHOOD -- SOCIETIES AS OPEN SYSTEMS -- THE DECLINE OF ''EXCEPTIONALISM'' AND PATH DEPENDENCE -- COMPETING THEORIES OF MODERN DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 ''KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES,'' AGENCY, AND NEW ACTORS -- THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES -- KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES -- UNIVERSITIES AND WORLD CULTURE -- EXPANDING AUTHORITY IN CIVIL SOCIETY -- MORE MOBILIZATION, MORE UNIVERSALISTIC CLAIMS -- THE DISCOVERY OF NEW ISSUES AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION -- ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH -- PUBLIC OPINION AS A LEGITIMATE ACTOR -- EMPOWERING ACTORS WITH AGENCY -- NEW MODELS OF CIVILITY: THE DECLINE OF TRUST -- CONDITIONAL TRUST AND INCREASING SKEPTICISM -- THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DOUBT -- NEW MODELS OF CITIZENSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 INDIVIDUALISM AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES -- THE DIFFUSION OF ''PERSONHOOD'' -- ''PERSONHOOD'' AND SOCIETY -- INDIVIDUALISM AS ''NARCISSISM'' -- CRITIQUES OF THE MODERN SELF -- THE OTHER SIDE OF RISING INDIVIDUALISM -- THE EFFECTS OF MODERN FAMILIES AND SCHOOLING -- INDIVIDUAL LEVEL PROCESSES -- INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON THE SELF -- EFFECTS OF MODERN VIEWS OF THE ''SELF'' ON SOCIETY -- THE CHANGING IMAGERY OF SOCIETY.

THE RISE OF MARKETS -- ORGANIZATIONS AND RITUALS OF EQUALITY -- THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF TASTE -- INCREASING OPTIONS FOR SELF-EXPRESSION -- POLITICS: PRESSURES FOR DIRECT DEMOCRACY -- RELIGION BECOMES PERSONAL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 STATES WITHOUT NATIONS: RECONSTRUCTING SOCIETY -- EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP, AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY -- HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRUST OF ''OTHERS'': TWO SCENARIOS -- A SECOND SCENARIO: EDUCATION AND DISTRUST -- CORRUPTION AS A SOURCE OF DISTRUST -- GOVERNMENT TRUST AND SOLIDARITY -- RESPECT FOR CITIZENS' SOCIAL AND LEGAL RIGHTS -- BIRTH EFFECTS -- THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE: SOCIAL TRUST -- THE EVIDENCE -- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL TRUST -- CASE ANALYSES -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 MODERNITY AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF INTOLERANCE -- NORMS OF TOLERANCE FOR ''OTHERS'' -- KINDS OF TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE -- EDUCATION AND STANDARD MODELS OF CIVILITY -- EDUCATION AND THE GROWTH OF TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE -- HYPOTHESES -- DATA -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 NEW MODELS OF NATIONHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP -- DIFFERENT MODELS OF NATIONHOOD -- CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF CITIZENSHIP -- THE MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 ''GLOBAL CITIZENS'' AND NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- GLOBALIZATION AND MULTIPLE POLITICAL IDENTITIES -- GLOBAL CITIZENS AND NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- GLOBALIZATION EFFECTS: BELARUS, A CASE STUDY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 NEW POLITIES, NEW STANDARDS FOR POLITICAL ELITES -- NEW POLITIES, NEW STANDARDS -- THE GLASS FISHBOWL ENVIRONMENT -- SOURCES OF NEW STANDARDS -- NEW STANDARDS AND NEW INTERACTION RITUALS -- PRIVATE LIVES AS INFORMATION ON PUBLIC PERSONA -- CHANGED EXPECTATIONS: MORE UNIVERSALISM DEMANDED -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- CHAPTER 9 THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC OPINION -- MEASURING PUBLIC OPINION.

MASS MEDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION -- THE RISE OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SYSTEMS -- MEDIA, POLLING, AND CITIZEN IMAGERY OF SOCIETY -- THE MEDIA AND PERCEPTIONS OF POLITICS -- NEW ACTORS, NEW ISSUES, AND FRAGMENTED PERCEPTIONS -- BLURRED BOUNDARIES AND PLEBISCITARY POLITICS -- THE MEDIA AND ELITE CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC AGENDA -- MEDIA, MEDIA USE, AND THE PUBLIC AGENDA -- STRONG PUBLIC OPINION, WEAKER ELECTORAL REGIMES -- POLICY INERTIA AND THE POLITICS OF SCANDAL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 THE MEDIA: THE DECLINE OF CREDIBILITY AND ELITE CONTROL -- THE MEDIA AND ORGANIZED INTERESTS -- GLOBAL EDUCATION AND MEDIA SKEPTICISM -- COMMERCIALIZATION AND PERCEPTION OF MEDIA BIAS -- CORRUPTION AND MEDIA CREDIBILITY -- POLITICALLY POLARIZED SOCIETIES AND MEDIA CREDIBILITY -- POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND ''POINT OF VIEW'': THE AMERICAN CASE, 1972-2004 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 THE FUTURE OF NATIONHOOD -- THE FUTURE -- OTHER SCENARIOS -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I. VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS -- APPENDIX II. DATA DESCRIPTION -- APPENDIX III. ESTIMATION METHOD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.