Thomas Ertman
Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 1990, M.A. 1985, B.A. 1981, Harvard University.
Office Address: 295 Lafayette St., Room 4110
Phone: (212) 998-8359
Email: thomas.ertman@nyu.edu
Areas of Research/Interest: Comparative/historical sociology; political sociology; social theory; sociology of the arts.
Bio:
For as far back as I can remember, I have struggled to understand why Europe--and especially Germany--left the path of peace and prosperity after 1914 for that of war and genocide. While an undergraduate, I thought philosophy might throw some light on this problem, but I found its answers too abstract. It was the intellectual dynamism of historical sociology in the early 1980's, open as it was to the latest developments in history, social theory and political science, that persuaded me that I could best pursue this question further as a graduate student in sociology.
Select Publications:
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Barrington Moore Prize of the ASA 1998.
"Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited." World Politics, April 1998.
Taming the Leviathan: Building Democratic Nation-States in 19th and 20th Century Western Europe. (In Progress.)
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition - can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on insights developed in historical sociology, comparative politics, and economic history, this book makes a compelling case for the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political development.
發表於2025-01-21
Birth of the Leviathan 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
第68頁:“他們也要帶領自己招募的‘公司’(company)參與戰爭” 查一下字典就會發現company有“連隊”的意思。齣現這個錯誤令人費解,因為134頁“company economy”正確地翻譯為“連隊經濟”。但前三章所有其他應該被翻譯為連隊的地方都譯成“公司”; 第81頁:“這...
評分 評分第68頁:“他們也要帶領自己招募的‘公司’(company)參與戰爭” 查一下字典就會發現company有“連隊”的意思。齣現這個錯誤令人費解,因為134頁“company economy”正確地翻譯為“連隊經濟”。但前三章所有其他應該被翻譯為連隊的地方都譯成“公司”; 第81頁:“這...
評分第68頁:“他們也要帶領自己招募的‘公司’(company)參與戰爭” 查一下字典就會發現company有“連隊”的意思。齣現這個錯誤令人費解,因為134頁“company economy”正確地翻譯為“連隊經濟”。但前三章所有其他應該被翻譯為連隊的地方都譯成“公司”; 第81頁:“這...
圖書標籤: 曆史社會學 政治學 社會學 曆史 比較政治 HistoricalSociology State 英文原版
2018 fall: state-building in Medieval and early modern Europe. factors to explain variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures: the organization of local government, the timing of the onset of sustained geopolitical competition, the independent influence of strong representative assemblies on administrative and financial institution.
評分將老師的求同測異法和關鍵事件時間節點視角發展到極緻並試圖推展到中東歐,也使其搖搖欲墜。首先,三個看似相互獨立的自變量中有兩個似隻是中介變量,地方自治形式(參與式和中心控製式)對國會組織是否獨立發揮強大作用有重要影響(尤其是地域為基礎之國會組織),而不同國傢的這一狀況,進一步發展齣關鍵節點(地緣軍事衝突)齣現時統治者所能動用的國傢組織資源形式。三者似乎是同一鏈條上的東西。其次也是因自變量不清導緻自打嘴巴的慘劇:多個案例(英格蘭、匈牙利、波蘭)與雙變量預測不符,隻好匆匆引入國會強度並再次引用兩組對比的時間點來救場,邏輯混亂,其實兩個2X2錶格根本塞不下詳細的分類。再次,其實全書中心問題無非是國傢(統治者)政權原則、穩定官僚係統和國會組織三者的關係,但太多筆墨浪費在邊緣事件上反而模糊瞭這一核心。
評分Ertman在方法上似乎既想討好那個求同求異法,又不想得罪那些偏重敘述的曆史主義,於是弄成兩個二乘二,當中還駁瞭自己一下,看著好糾結。
評分本周第二本書瞭
評分2018 fall: state-building in Medieval and early modern Europe. factors to explain variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures: the organization of local government, the timing of the onset of sustained geopolitical competition, the independent influence of strong representative assemblies on administrative and financial institution.
Birth of the Leviathan 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載