Fred Block: Revising State Theory

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>An analysis of the relationship between business and the state<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877224655&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="452_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Revising State Theory</h1> <H2>Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism</H2> <h3>Fred Block</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-465-X $34.95, Oct 87, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <br>paper 0-87722-524-9 $31.95, Sep 87, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-352-2 $36.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR> 256 pp </P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Socialist Review Book Award, <i>Socialist Review</i>, 1987</font></P> </H3> <p>This volume makes available in one place a complete statement of Fred Block�s perspective for students and participants in the ongoing debate on state theory. His substantial Introduction serves as an intellectual autobiography in which he assesses the field-including the theories of Domhoff, Poulantzas, and Skocpoland situates his own work within it. Block also discusses his relationship to different strands of Marxism. <p>In his analysis of the relationship between business and the state, Block argues that while business interests have far more influence over state policy than other constituencies, state actors still have substantial autonomy in formulating policies. In particular, the business community�s internal divisions and difficulties in assessing its own interests limit its capacity to control events. Block insists that when business influence is greatest, as during the Reagan years, state policies will be least successful in solving the society�s problems. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Introduction: State Theory in Context <p><b>Part I</b> <br>1. Beyond Corporate Liberalism <br>2. The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State <br>3. Cooperation and Conflict in the Capitalist World Economy <br>4. Beyond Relative Autonomy: State Managers as Historical Subjects <p><b>Part II</b> <br>5. New Productive Forces and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism: A Postindustrial Perspective (with Larry Hirschhorn) <br>6. The Myth of Reindustrialization <br>7. Postindustrial Development and the Obsolescence of Economic Categories <br>8. Political Choice and the Multiple "Logics" of Capital <p>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Fred Block</b> is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author (with Richard A. Cloward, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Frances Fox Piven) of <I>The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State</I>.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877224655&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/452_reg.html</font></p>