The State and Geographic Process: A Critical Review

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Dear ◽  
G Clark
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The State ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Geographic Process ◽  
Social Engineer

This paper provides a critical review of a long-neglected issue in geography: The role of the state in geographic processes. Five major interpretations of this role are discussed, with emphasis on their interrelationships and analytical implications: the state as supplier of public goods and services; as facilitator and regulator of the economy; as social engineer; as arbiter; and as agent of some ruling elite. This overview clarifies the question of what the state actually is, and emphasizes the significance of three crucial research issues: the legitimation and fiscal crises of the state; the role of the local state; and comparative analysis of the state in socialist systems.

scholarly journals Poverty as a Political Choice: a Comparative Analysis of Reports of the UN Rapporteur’s Visits to the UK and Spain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins ◽  
Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper presents a comparative analysis of two reports by the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, one for Spain and one for the UK. In both countries, austerity policies were introduced following the banking crisis of 2008. The UN Rapporteur reports highlight the damage that was done by welfare retrenchment. In particular, the reports document the impact of austerity on the most vulnerable individuals and communities. The paper uses Somers' (2008) conceptual model of citizenship as the basis for a comparative analysis of two reports. Somers' (2008) model of citizenship is a triadic one which sees the state, market and civil society as competing elements. Each one can serve to regulate and limit the influence or excesses of the other two. Somers argues that neoliberalism has seen the dominance of the market at the expense of the role of the state and the institutions of civil society. Austerity policies saw the market dominating. Having examined the context of the two reports and their conclusions, the paper discussed the implications for individual social workers’ practice and the role of social work as a profession in tackling poverty and marginalisation.

The state and national competitiveness (The case of EU)

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-158
Author(s):  
M. V. Klinova
Keyword(s):  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
National Competitiveness ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Eu

The article aims to explore the possibilities and contribution of the state in ensuring the competitiveness of the economy of the EU countries. Various definitions of the concept of national competitiveness are presented as well as directions in which the state affects national competitiveness. Among the latter, state procurements of goods and services and their varieties are considered. Special importance of the indirect influence of the state on the country’s competitiveness in the form of creating favorable investment climate, pursuing structural policy, and establishing clear rules for doing business is emphasized. The analysis of the possibilities and methods of state regulation of business activities based on a number of indicators of international organizations is presented. The use of new opportunities by the state in the context of digitalization of the economy to ensure competitiveness is highlighted. The role of the state and PPP in the development of infrastructure, which serves as a guarantor and stimulator of national competitiveness, is examined. The conclusion is made that the role of the state in national competitiveness is increasing, especially under the spread of COVID-19.

ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT IN CONDITIONS OF POLITICIZED ECONOMY

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Прокопович ◽  
Galina Prokopovich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Medium Businesses ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The article deals with the problems of antimonopoly policy and development of small and medium enterprises in conditions of protectionism in Russia. On the basis of comparative analysis of the industrial economies of the various countries and of government tools used for social and economic development, the problems are identified and the mechanisms of implementation of antimonopoly policy and development of small and medium enterprises in conditions of protectionism in Russia are suggested. The author proves the necessity of transformation of the Russian economy, the mainstay of which serves small and medium businesses in crisis.

Liberals, the Irish Famine and the role of the state

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (116) ◽  
pp. 513-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Government ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Irish Famine ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Laissez Faire

The Irish mythology of the Great Famine of the 1840s explained the failure of the British government to prevent the deaths of some one million people in terms of a Whig government and ruling élite driven by a commitment to laissez-faire ideology which left them indifferent to the loss of Irish lives. At its most extreme, this mythology attributed a wilful genocide to the English. The term myth as used here does not necessarily imply that the account is untrue. Rather, the myth comprises a combination of fact, fiction and the unknowable in a narrative of such power that, for the people who accept it, the myth provides a guide to future understanding and action. In this respect, Irish mythology about the English and the Famine is rooted in facts: the resistance of the Whig government to any interference with the market; the staunch commitment to ideology of central figures in the making of famine policy such as Charles Trevelyan (assistant secretary to the treasury) and Sir Charles Wood (chancellor of the exchequer) and shapers of liberal opinion such as the political economists Nassau Senior and James Wilson (editor of The Economist); and the indifference to Irish suffering, and indeed the hostility to the Irish, as demonstrated in the language of the radical M.P.J.A. Roebuck.

States and Ethnic Violence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lange
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
World War ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Role Of The State

This chapter examines the role of the state in promoting or deterring ethnic violence. It begins with a discussion of the ways states can promote ethnic violence by using a number of examples, including the Rwandan genocide and statelessness/near-statelessness during World War II. It then considers how both the ethnicization of states and state effectiveness help explain why some states contribute to ethnic violence more than others through a comparative analysis of ethnic violence in two Indian regions: Assam and Kerala. It also explores how states affect whether mobilizational resources can be effectively employed to organize ethnic violence. Finally, it shows how modernity promotes some states that are willing and able to prevent ethnic violence and others that are willing and able to incite it.

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