Original scientific paper
STATE AND DEVELOPMENT
Rade Kalanj
; Faculty of Philosphy, Zagreb
Abstract
The problem of state is one of the oldest issues in social sciences and philosophy. However, because of the fact that the issue of state has always been put into a wider historical framework, and not as a separate question, the author starts from the point of view that the state is a crucial issue of development and the development theories. The state appears on the scene always as a developmental issue, so that its forms and functions are reflected in a concrete relation with the concepts and notions of development. After a concicse review of the position of the state within the classical sociological theory (Durkheim, Weber), a summary of Parsons ideas, the author focuses upon some typical conceptions about the state in contemporary theories of development: the conception of state as a “developmental factor” (“developing state myth”), the conception of state within the dependence theories (the “puppet state myth”) and the conception of state in the neo–classical theory (the “modest state myth”), whereas the last mentioned conception has become prevailing in the 1980s and 1990s. In the final part of the study, questioned are the more recent conceptions about the state within the globalization framework that significantly has influenced the changes of classical features of the state organization. This only recently opened discussion is as topical as the actual worldwide integration processes and conflicts concerning economic and cultural power.
Keywords
development; developing state; differentiation; distribution of work; global order; modest state; national state; puppet state; state
Hrčak ID:
141644
URI
Publication date:
15.5.1998.
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