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The management of contemporary public affairs involves many different centres of social power, engaged in complex and mutable relations, ranging from willing cooperation, to competition, to out-and-out conflict. This book emphasises the role played in these relations by political institutions in particular. Generally, these claim a special competence to authorise and regulate the activities of other institutions, but their claim is often contested by other power centres, serving different and sometimes contrasting interests. To explore those processes, the author, after identifying the nature of `the political', considers its dealings with other forms of social power. Among these, economic power gets particular attention, in view of the contemporary salience of the `state vs market' issue. But this book also considers the relations between politics at one end, and law, the public sphere, citizenship, and religion at the other.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Preface xi
Chapter One: Varieties of Political Experience 1
Chapter Two: Power: An Outline of the Concept and of its Manifestations 15
Chapter Three: Political Power Un-Manned: A Defence of the Holy
Trinity from Michael Mann's Military Attack 27
Chapter Four: State and Society: Modern Trends of a Problematic
Relationship 43
Chapter Five: Juridical Aspects of European State-Making: A Retrospect 53
Chapter Six: Citizens and the State: A Retrospective View and an
Attempt at Prospecting 63
Chapter Seven: Challenge and Response in the Relationship Between
the State and the Liberal Public Sphere 75
Chapter Eight: Relations Between Political and Economic Power:
A Conceptual Narrative 85
Chapter Nine: The Secularization of the State: Aspects of a Major
Historical Development 111
Chapter Ten: The Westphalian Design of the Modern States System 121
Chapter Eleven: The Genesis of Weber's Talks on the Vocations of
Science and of Politics 139
Bibliography 155
Appendix: The Concept of Power (Heinrich Popitz) 159
Index 179
