Beyond Relative Autonomy: State Managers as Historical Subjects*
نویسنده
چکیده
Neo-Marxist analyses of the state and politics now centre on the vexed question of the 'specificity of the political'. What is the degree to which politics and the state have independent determining effects on historical outcomes? Can the state or the people who direct the state apparatus act as historical subjects? The questions are critical because without a clear set of answers, it is impossible t o develop a consistent theory of the state. In an interview done only months before his death, Nicos Poulantzas insisted that these questions had been answered through the idea of the relative autonomy of the state. Poulantzas' remarks are worth quoting at length:
منابع مشابه
The British National Health Service 1948–2008: A Review of the Historiography
This article surveys historical writing on the British National Health Service since its inception in 1948. Its main focus is on policy-making and organisation and its principal concerns are primary care and the hospital sector, although public health, and psychiatric and geriatric care are briefly discussed. The over-arching narrative is one of transition from paternalism and technocratic plan...
متن کاملThe meaning of support from co- workers and managers in teams when working
Jungert, T. (2012). The meaning of support from co-workers and managers in teams when working. (FOG-Report no 72). Linköping: Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping University. This report is part of a post-doc research project on factors that promote work motivation and occupational self-efficacy in organizations in Sweden and Canada. The purpose of this report was to...
متن کاملManagers and Students as Newsvendors How Out-of-Task Experience Matters
We compare how freshmen business students, graduate business students and experienced procurement managers perform on a simple inventory ordering task. We find that, qualitatively, managers exhibit ordering behavior similar to students, including biased ordering towards average demand. Experience, however, affects subjects’ utilization of information. The managers’ work experience seems most va...
متن کاملA Cross-Cultural Study of Teacher Autonomy in Curriculum Development among Iranian and Turkish EFL Teachers
Teacher autonomy is viewed very differently: one teacher may view autonomy as a means to gain substantial freedom from interference or supervision; another may view it as the freedom to develop collegial relationships and accomplish tasks that extend beyond the classroom; and even some others may perceive it as a means for principals to avoid their duties (Frase and Sorenson, 1992). Although th...
متن کاملClass and Gender Relations in the Welfare State: The Contradictory Dictates of the Norm of Female Autonomy
One debate among feminist scholars of the welfare state is whether it supports women’s subordination or emancipation. Since the 1980s, the French state apparatus has been experiencing a conflict of values, between feminism and familialism. The research presented here probed how these distinct institutional-level conceptions of gender might be manifest at the interactional level. Analysis is bas...
متن کامل