TY - BOOK AU - MacIver,Robert M. TI - The modern state U1 - 320 PY - 1926/// [reprint 1964, 1966] CY - Oxford University Press PB - London KW - Political science KW - State, The N1 - 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 ER -