Premium
In a State?
Author(s) -
Wilson Graham
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/0952-1895.00131
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , rhetoric , popularity , context (archaeology) , power (physics) , political science , adaptation (eye) , political economy , set (abstract data type) , sociology , history , law , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , archaeology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , computer science , programming language
There has been considerable discussion of the decline of the nation‐state. It is important, however, to set claims that the nation‐state is in decline in historical context and to distinguish processes of state adaptation to crises from changes in the power of the state. The popularity of anti‐state rhetoric in the 1980s and 1990s led many to confuse changes in the modes of state activity, of which there is much evidence, with a decline in the significance of the state, for which there is much less evidence.