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The Changing Role of the State. Øyvind Østerud University of Oslo Annual GINI Conference Islamabad, December 13-14, 2009. The Idea of the Modern State. Constitutional sovereignty Territorial integrity Political legitimacy Constitutional sovereignty: either/or
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The Changing Role of the State Øyvind Østerud University of Oslo Annual GINI Conference Islamabad, December 13-14, 2009
The Idea of the Modern State Constitutional sovereignty Territorial integrity Political legitimacy Constitutional sovereignty: either/or Territorial integrity: continuous scale Political legitimacy: continuous scale
The Idea of the Nation-State National integration An imagined community Distributive concensus Support for the rules of governing Unitary or federal states Federalism = vertical distribution of power
The state: three basic compromises A compromise of scale: decentralisation internally – international law and cooperation externally (a compromise between polis and cosmopolis) A double social compromise: between social classes and between ethnic groups (= national integration) An economic-political compromise: growth and efficiancy on the one hand; participation and distribution on the other (the balance: embedded liberalism)
The changing role of the state:Each of the three compromises under pressure • The first: • quests for secession; • transnational legalisation/judicialisation (the expansion of rights) • The second: • increasing inequalities; • ethnicisation of nationalism • The third: Globalisation tilts the balance (favouring growth above distribution) • The neo-liberal condition • The financial crisis: a new turn?