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Taking the State Seriously. Nordlinger. Taking State Seriously. Counter the sociological 60s Actions & Policies distribute valued political, ideological, social, economic goods & opportunities Even states without high extractive/regulatory capacity. Research Questions.
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Taking the State Seriously Nordlinger
Taking State Seriously • Counter the sociological 60s • Actions & Policies • distribute valued political, ideological, social, economic goods & opportunities • Even states without high extractive/regulatory capacity
Research Questions • 1. Do public officials act on own preferences • 2. Is autonomy best explained by internal or external factors
Approaches • Society-centred view • state as arena • State centred view • independent actor and variable
Three factors Institutionalization Complexity Coherence
Parallel with neo-Marxism • Relative autonomy • Not instrument of dominant class IF • capitalists divided • legitimacy declining • social peace decaying • intensified contradictions
Skocpol, Stepan etc. • Autonomy affected by: • capacity for intervention • social contours (shaped by states)
Limits of state-centric model • Autonomy ill-defined • Findings not generalized • Society-centric factors remain • State-soc hypotheses not questioned
Taking state seriously • 1. Find outer limits of autonomy • 2. Raise deep questions on society centred claims • state institutional contours -> policy • inst patterns cue officials • insts let officials alter social opposition • insts “pattern” social preferences
Taking state seriously • 3. Find subjective factors • 4. Delineate problematique • what is the state interest? • What is the state!!
Concepts • Autonomy • State preferences • Support
MIRV • M - Malleability: susceptibility to expression of social interests • I - Insulation: Belief in ability to overcome social opposition • R - Resilience: Expectation that policy will produce outcomes • V - Vulnerability: importance attached to social support
Structural features Party system Differentiation Centralization Bureaucracy Socialization Economic Links Cohesiveness Autonomous Acts Diverge from soc pref Alter Soc Pref Converge with soc pref MIRV (!!) Malleability Insulation Resilience Vulnerability
Corporatism: Schmitter • “a system of interest representation in which constituent units are organized into a limited number of single, compulsory, non-competitive, hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated categories, recognised or licensed by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their respective categories in exchange for observing certain controls on the selection of leaders and articulation of demands and supports”