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I State Power A Strategic-Relational Approach BOBJESSOP polity Copyright © Bob Jessop 2008 The right of Bob Jessop to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2007 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. 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For further information on Polity, visit our website: www.polityco.uk For my students, past, present, and future Contents List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables x List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgements xii General Introduction 1 What is the State? • 2 A Preliminary Definition of the State 9 'Putting This Book in Its Place' 12 Part I Theorizing the State 1 The Development of the Strategic-Relational Approach 21 Three Sources of the Strategic-Relational State Approach 22 The First Phase in the Strategic-Relational Approach 27 The Second Phase in the Strategic-Relational Approach 38 The Third Phase in the Strategic-Relational Approach 47 Interim Strategic-Relational Conclusions 52 2 Bringing the State Back in (Yet Again) |j| The Marxist Revival and the Strategic-Relational Approach 56 Strategic-Relational Tendencies in the Second Wave 61 New Directions of Research 76 Conclusions 78 Part II Sources of the Strategic-Relational Approach 3 Marx on Political Representation and the State 83 What Does The Eighteenth Brumaire Accomplish? 85 On Periodization 88 The Political Stage 89 The Social Content of Politics 91 vii viii Contents The State Apparatus and Its Trajectory 93 More on Political Representation 94 Conclusions 98 4 Gramsci on the Geography of State Power 101 Spatializing the Philosophy of Praxis 101 Gramsci and the Southern Question 108 Gramsci on Americanism and Fordism 110 Gramsci on Territoriality and State Power 112 Gramsci and International Relations 113 Conclusions 116 5 Poulantzas on the State as a Social Relation 118 Marxist Theory and Political Strategy 119 New Methodological Considerations 120 The State and Political Class Struggle 122 The Relational Approach and Strategic Selectivity 125 Re-Reading Poulantzas 126 Exceptional Elements in the Contemporary State 129 Periodizing the Class Struggle 133 The Spatio-Temporal Matrix of the State 134 Conclusions 137 é Foucault on State, State Formation, and Statecraft 140 Foucault and the 'Crisis of Marxism" 140 Poulantzas and Foucault Compared 142 The Analytics of Power versus State Theory 147 Foucault as a Genealogist of Statecraft 149 With Foucault beyond Foucault 151 Conclusions 153 Part III Applying the Strategic-Relational Approach 7 The Gender Selectivities of the State 157 Analysing Gender Selectivities 157 Gender Selectivities in the State 163 Strategic Selectivity and Strategic Action -...... 168 Conclusions 174 Contents IX 8 Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Temporal Sovereignty 178 Globalization Defined 178 Globalization and the Spatial Turn 180 Some Spatio-Temporal Contradictions of Globalizing Capitalism 186 The Implications of Globalization for (National) States 189 Conclusions 196 9 Multiscalar Metagovernance in the European Union 198 State-Centric Perspectives 198 Governance-Centric Approaches 202 Changes in Statehood in Advanced Capitalist Societies 209 The EU as a Schumpeterian Workfare Post-National Regime 212 The European Union and Multiscalar Metagovernance 218 Conclusions 222 10 Complexity, Contingent Necessity, Semiosis, and the SRA 225 Complexity and Contingent Necessity 225 Complexity and the Strategic-Relational Approach 233 Complexity Reduction and Cultural Political Economy 236 Towards a New Strategic-Relational Agenda 240 Conclusions 243 Notes 24é Bibliography 251 Index List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables Boxes Box 4.1 Some spatial metaphors in Gramsci 103 Box 9.1 Trends and counter-trends in state restructuring 210 Figures Figure 1.1 Structure-agency beyond structuration theory 41 Tables Table 8.1 Marx s Capital, time, and space 185 x List of Abbreviations 18B Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte CPE cultural political economy ISA ideological state apparatus KWNS Keynesian Welfare National State MLG multi-level governance OMC open method of coordination RSA repressive state apparatus SRA strategic-relational approach SWPR Schumpeterian Workfare Post-national Regime
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