The Changing Architecture of Politics

Preface and Introduction/PART ONE: THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL STRUCTURATION: STRUCTURE AGENCY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN STATE/Political Structuration and Political Science/The Elements of Political Structure/Patterns of Agency/Markets Hierarchies and Political Allocation/The Modern State at the Crossroads/Structuring the Field of Political Action/PART TWO: CHANGING PATTERNS OF POLITICAL STRUCTURATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE STATE/The Limits of Political Power/Personal Leadership and Party Systems/The State and Interest Intermediation/Patterns of Collaborative Behaviour/The Paradox of Civil Society/De-differentiation and Re-differentiation in the Contemporary State/Transnational Structures and the State Responses/From the Welfare State to the Competition State/Epilogue/Political Structuration and Political Ideas in the 21st Century