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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 ...