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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The State as a Conceptual Variable
Contributor:
Nettl, J. P.
Published:
Project MUSE, 1968
Published in:
World Politics, 20 (1968) 4, Seite 559-592
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2307/2009684
ISSN:
0043-8871;
1086-3338
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
The concept of state is not much in vogue in the social sciences right now. Yet it retains a skeletal, ghostly existence largely because, for all the changes in emphasis and interest of research, the thing exists and no amount of conceptual restructuring can dissolve it. The present article develops a conceptual approach in which no violence is done to historical or empirical fact, but which offers a means of integrating the concept of state into the current primacy of social science concerns and analytical methods. It is hoped that this approach not only will provide a convenient conceptualization, but will contribute to attacking a substantive problem of some consequence. Since the relevant area is potentially huge, no more than a brushstroke configuration can be attempted.