Skinner Quentin, Stråth Bo (eds.) States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0-521-83156-3States and Citizens offers a coherent survey of perceptions of the state, its history, its theoretical underpinnings, and its prospects in the contemporary world. The coverage of the Western European experience is thorough and wide-ranging, with the greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, as an important comparative example. The provocative and accessible contributions of a very distinguished and genuinely pan-European team of contributors ensure that States and Citizens provides a unique and valuable resource, of interest to students and teachers of the history of ideas, political theory and European studies.