Author Description

About the Author<br/><br/>Murray Knuttila teaches in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina where he is also Dean of Arts.<br/><br/>Wendee Kubik is an interdisciplinary doctoral candidate in the Canadian Plains Research Center at the University of Regina.<br/><br/><br/>Product Description<br/><br/>This new edition updates the historical context of theories of the state by considering the impact of the decline of the welfare state in the post-Fordist era, the collapse of Eastern European and Soviet communism, and the emergence of the so-called global information-based economies. Theories that address the gendered nature of the liberal democratic state have been expanded by feminist and gay/lesbian theorizing. There is also a new analysis of recent developments in state theory. The book addresses the debates about the relevance of the nation state in the global era, the post-modernist critique of totaling theory, and the impact of identity politics on the process of theorizing the state.