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Books:

Althusser.  “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)”, in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (2001);

Anderson B. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983);

Anderson P. Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974);

Bottomore. Elites and Society, 2ed. (1993);

Calhoun, Craig.  Nationalism (1998);

Cassirer. The Myth of the State (1946);

Castells. City, Class and Power (1978);

Chappell, L Gendering Government (2003);

Chase-Dunn. Socialist States in the World System (1982); 

Comte. System of Positive Polity, 2 vols. (2018, in French 1851-1854);  

Dyson, K. The State Tradition in Western Europe (1980)

Eckersley, R. The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (2004);

Eisenstadt. The Political Systems of Empires (1963);

Elias. On the Process of Civilisation (Volume 3) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias) (2012);

Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

Esping-Andersen. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990); 

     -     Welfare States in Transition National Adaptations in Global Economies (1996);

     -     Why We Need a New Welfare State (2002);

Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977, in French 1975);

     -     "Governmentality", in Burchell, G. et al. (Eds.). The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (1991);

Frankel, B. “On the State of the State: Marxist Theories of the State after Leninism”, in Theory and Society (1979);

Frankel, B. Beyond the State? (1983);

Gellner. Nations and Nationalism (1983);

     -     Plough, Sword and the Book: The Structure of Human History (1988);

Giddens. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 1: Power, Property and the State (1981);

     -     A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 2: The Nation State and Violence (1985);

     -     The Consequences of Modernity (1990);

     -     The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998);

Gilroy. The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain (1982);

Goldman. Anarchism and Other Essays (1910);

Goldstone, Jack A. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991);

Gramsci. Prison Notebooks (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) (2011, in Italian 1947);

Grinin. „The Early State and its Analogues”, in Social Evolution & History (2004);

Gumplovicz. Race und Staat (1875);

Gurr, Ted Robert and Farrokh Moshiri.  Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century (1991);

Habermas. Legitimation Crisis (1975, in German 1973);

     -     The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989, in German 1962);

Held. Models of Democracy (1987);

Hirst. The Pluralist Theory of the State: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski (1989);

Hobhouse. The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism (1918);

Hobsbawm. The Age of  Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 (1962);

     -     The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 (1975);

     -     The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (1987);

     -     Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990);

     -     The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994);

Hobson. Imperialism: A Study (1902);

Huntington. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (1957);

     -     The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991);

Jessop, B. The Future of the Capitalist State (2002);

Kropotkin. The State: Its Historic Role (1897);

Laclau. Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory (1977);

  • Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985);

Lenin, V. I. State and Revolution (1951, in Russian 1917);

Lenski. Power and Privilege (1966); 

Lijphart. Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian & Consensus Government in Twenty-one Countries (1984);

     -     Parliamentary versus Presidential Government (1992); 

     -     Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies 1945–1990 (1994);

     -     Institutional Design in New Democracies (1996);  

     -     Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms & Performance in Thirty-six Countries (1999);

Linz. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration (1978);

     -     „The Perils of Presidentialism”, in Journal of Democracy (1990);

     -     Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (2000);

Lipset. Political Man (1960);

Luhmann. A Sociological Theory of Law (1985, in German 1972);

     -     Political Theory in the Welfare State (1990, in German 1981);

     -     Social Systems (1995, in German 1984);

Lukács. History and Class Consciousness (1971, in German 1923);

Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984, in French 1979);

Mann. The Sources of Social Power,4 Vols. (1986-2012);

Marshall. Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays (1950);

Marx. Class Struggles in France (in German 1850);

     -     The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (in German 1852);

Meyer. Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society, and the Individual (1987);

Miliband. The State in Capitalist Society (1969);

     -     Class Power and State Power (1983);

Mills. The Power Elite (1956);

Moore. Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966);

Myrdal G. Rich Lands and Poor (1957);

Offe. Modernity and The State: East and West (1996);

Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);

Parsons. The Social System (1951);

     -     Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (1966);

     -     Politics and Social Structure (1969);

     -     The System of Modern Societies (1971);

Poggi, Gianfranco. The State: Its Nature, Development, and Prospects (1990);

Przeworski. Capitalism and Social Democracy (1985); 

Poulantzas. State, Power, Socialism (2014, in French 1978);

Robertson. Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions (1987);

Sassen. Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (1996);

     -     Globalization and its Discontents (1999);

Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942);

Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979);

     -     Bringing the State Back In (1985); 

Smith A. Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era (1995);

Spencer. Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

     -     The Man Versus the State (1884);

Spengler. The Decline of the West (2021, in German 1918, 1922);

Therborn. The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1980);

Tilly. Coercion, Capital, and European States: A.D. 990–1990 (1990);

Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);

     -     The Old Regime and the French Revolution (2014, in French 1856);

Tönnies. Community and Society (2021, in German 1887);

Toynbee. A Study of History, 12 vols. (1934-1961);

Turner B. Rights and Virtues. Political Essays on Citizenship and Social Justice (2008);

     -     Globalization: East and West (2010);

     -     Religion and Modern Society. Citizenship, Secularisation and the State (2011);

Walby. Theorizing Patriarchy (1990);

Wallerstein. The Modern World System,4  Vols. (1974-2011);

Weber Max. Economy and Society: A New Translation (2019, in German 1922);

Wilensky. The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures (1975);

     -     Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance (2002);

Wittfogel. Oriental Despotism (1957);

Wolf. Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis (1999);

Wright. Class, Crisis, and the State (1978).

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