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Series : Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

The Evolution of Modern States
近代国家の歩み:スウェーデン・日本・アメリカ合衆国

Sweden, Japan, and the United States

¥ 10,462 (tax included)

Description

The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the early twenty-first century? Drawing on insights from evolutionary theory, Sven Steinmo challenges the common equilibrium view of politics and economics and argues that modern political economies are best understood as complex adaptive systems. The book examines the political, social, and economic history of three different nations - Sweden, Japan, and the United States - and explains how and why these countries have evolved along such different trajectories over the past century. Bringing together social and economic history, institutionalism, and evolutionary theory, Steinmo thus provides a comprehensive explanation for differing responses to globalization as well as a new way of analyzing institutional and social change.

* Brings evolutionary theory to the study of social and institutional change
* The only book to compare European, American and Japanese politics and history
* Written in plain language and will appeal to undergraduates and graduate students alike

Contents

1. Introduction: evolutionary narratives
2. Sweden: the evolution of a bumble-bee
3. The Japanese hybrid
4. The United States: strong nation - weak state
5. And yet it moves.