The State of the State: The Model of the Modern State and Its Contemporary Transformation
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Political Science Review
- Vol. 25 (3), 259-279
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512104043016
Abstract
The first part of this article sketches the ideal-type of the territorially consolidated, sovereign nation-state. The second part discusses how the assumptions of “homogeneity,” “unity,” and “sovereignty” that underlie this ideal-type have become problematized over the past few decades. The moves toward a state form that institutionalizes polycentricity, heterogeneity, and plurality are discussed in the context of the conflict between nationalism and multiculturalism; the internationalization of the state; and geopolitical transformations. Methodologically, the article puts forward an argument in favor of a historically informed institutional analysis of state transformations.Keywords
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