The modern state /
R.M. MacIver
- Oxford University Press : London, 1926 [reprint 1964, 1966].
- xii, 504 p. ; 20 cm
- 73 Oxford paperbacks ; .
Originally published: London : Oxford University Press, 1926
Includes bibliographical footnotes and index
What is the state? -- Origins -- The early empire -- The emergence of citizenship -- The formation of the country-state -- The limits of political control -- The residence of authority -- Might and sovereignty -- Law and order -- Political government and the economic order -- Formation and dissolution -- The forms of the state -- The articulation of governmental powers -- The party system -- The evolution of modern theories of the state -- Political thought of the present -- A re-interpretation of the state