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• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Understanding Power: Traditional Approaches
• The power debate
• Pluralism
• Rational choice theory
• Conclusion
• 2. Understanding Power: Radical Approaches
• The other dimensions of power
• Power: luck or structure?
• Power and structure
• Poststructuralism and the defacing of power
• Conclusion
• 3. The State and Power
• The liberal perspective: pluralism and rational choice
• Rational choice theory and state power
• Elitism and neo-Weberian approaches to state power
• Radical approaches to state power
• Conclusion
• 4. A Framework for Analysing Power and the State
• Power, capacity and agents
• A framework for understanding power
• Conclusion
• 5. The Development of the State from Modernity to Pastmodernity
• The development of the modern and pastmodern state
• From extensive to intensive to fragmented power
• Postmodern delivery
• The partiality of the modern state
• Conclusion
• 6. Legitimacy, Authority and Bureaucracy
• Legitimacy and the liberal state
• The modern state: bureaucracy, authority and force
• The problem of authority
• Nationalism and legitimacy
• Fear, trust and authority
• Conclusion
• 7. Force and Terror
• Force and terror in authoritarian regimes
• From force to terror
• The problem of totalitarianism
• Using force and terror in ‘democratic’ regimes
• Conclusion
• 8. Rationality and Regulation
• Rational choice ontology and incentives
• Principal–agent theory
• Incentives and public policy
• Regulation and choice
• Conclusion
• 9. Surveillance
• Developing surveillance
• The implications of surveillance
• Conclusion
• 10. Risk
• Understanding the dimensions of risk
• Risk and government
• Analysing risk in politics
• Implicit with risk is a notion of power
• Conclusion
• 11. States and the Moral Order
• Developing moral politics
• The new right and individual responsibility
• Moral panic and obesity
• Anti-social behaviour
• Conclusion
• 12. The Limits of the State: Invisibility, Resistance and Constraint
• The debate on declining state power
• Invisibility in the modern state
• Resistance
• Implementation and subversion
• External limits – the case of climate change
• Conclusion
• 13. Conclusion
• Modernism and exceptionalism
• Theories and their limitations
• States after the crises
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index