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Introduction *.(POLITY FORUM: Politics, History, and The State of the State)

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| July 01, 2008 | Jensen, Laura S. | COPYRIGHT 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a Division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Forty years ago, J.P. Nettl exhorted scholars to rescue the concept of the state from its "skeletal, ghostly existence" and to reintegrate it into the concerns and methods of social science. (1) Much effort has since been expended upon "bringing the state back in" to studies of politics and history, yet calls for a more clearly theorized and empirically grounded state, and for the development of better measures of "stateness," have continued unabated. Although persistent definitional and methodological challenges and political developments such as globalization have frustrated analytical progress, state and stateness still capture the combination of "far-reaching coercion ...

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