Structuring the State

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Daniel Ziblatt

页数:288

出版时间:2006-1-29

价格:USD 62.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780691121673

图书标签:比较政治政治学国家理论国家建设意大利德国转型政治联邦主义

Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social science. "Structuring the State" undertakes one of the first systematic comparisons of the two cases, putting the origins of these nation-states and the nature of European political development in new light. Daniel Ziblatt begins his analysis with a striking puzzle: Upon national unification, why was Germany formed as a federal nation-state and Italy as a unitary nation-state? He traces the diplomatic maneuverings and high political drama of national unification in nineteenth-century Germany and Italy to refute the widely accepted notion that the two states' structure stemmed exclusively from Machiavellian farsightedness on the part of militarily powerful political leaders.Instead, he demonstrates that Germany's and Italy's "founding fathers" were constrained by two very different pre-unification patterns of institutional development. In Germany, a legacy of well-developed sub-national institutions provided the key building blocks of federalism. In Italy, these institutions' absence doomed federalism. This crucial difference in the organization of local power still shapes debates about federalism in Italy and Germany today. By exposing the source of this enduring contrast, "Structuring the State" offers a broader theory of federalism's origins that will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, state-building, international relations, and European political history.

读后感

总体来说这本书建构了一个有意思的puzzle：即为何（军事）能力较强的中心政权愿意向地方政治组织让渡权力，在统一过程中保留地方议会、财政权和地方旧精英，建立联邦制，而能力较弱的中心政权反而把自己的政治方案整个施加于地方之上，代替旧地方精英和地方政治机构，建立单一...

总体来说这本书建构了一个有意思的puzzle：即为何（军事）能力较强的中心政权愿意向地方政治组织让渡权力，在统一过程中保留地方议会、财政权和地方旧精英，建立联邦制，而能力较弱的中心政权反而把自己的政治方案整个施加于地方之上，代替旧地方精英和地方政治机构，建立单一...

总体来说这本书建构了一个有意思的puzzle：即为何（军事）能力较强的中心政权愿意向地方政治组织让渡权力，在统一过程中保留地方议会、财政权和地方旧精英，建立联邦制，而能力较弱的中心政权反而把自己的政治方案整个施加于地方之上，代替旧地方精英和地方政治机构，建立单一...

总体来说这本书建构了一个有意思的puzzle：即为何（军事）能力较强的中心政权愿意向地方政治组织让渡权力，在统一过程中保留地方议会、财政权和地方旧精英，建立联邦制，而能力较弱的中心政权反而把自己的政治方案整个施加于地方之上，代替旧地方精英和地方政治机构，建立单一...

总体来说这本书建构了一个有意思的puzzle：即为何（军事）能力较强的中心政权愿意向地方政治组织让渡权力，在统一过程中保留地方议会、财政权和地方旧精英，建立联邦制，而能力较弱的中心政权反而把自己的政治方案整个施加于地方之上，代替旧地方精英和地方政治机构，建立单一...

用户评价

这本书给我研究方法上的很大的启发。

方法论课上的必读书，研究设计非常赞。

方法论课上的必读书，研究设计非常赞。

有趣的puzzle，令人有点意料之外但又符合情理的解释。章节安排不够理想，34章有点多余，56章的叙述不够powerful，没有把结构性因素融入到行为者的决策和互动之中。

杰作！