State/Culture: State/Formation After the Cultural Turn (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)

What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the radiant core of a universal, context-free rationality? This eagerly awaited volume brings together pioneering scholars who reexamine the sociology of the state and historical processes of state-formation in light of developments in cultural analysis. The volume first examines some of the unsatisfying ways in which cultural processes have been discussed in social science literature on the state. It demonstrates new and sophisticated approaches to understanding both the role culture plays in the formation of states and the state's influence on broad cultural developments. The book includes theoretical essays and empirical studies; the latter essays are concerned with early modern European nations, non-European countries undergoing political modernization, and twentieth-century Western nation-states. A wide range of perspectives are presented in order to delineate this emergent area of research. Together the essays constitute an agenda-setting work for the social sciences. Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Contributors 8 Preface 10 Introduction: Culture and the State • George Steinmetz 14 Part One: State/Culture: Theoretical Approaches 64 1. Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field • Pierre Bourdieu 66 2. Society, Economy, and the State Effect • Timothy Mitchell 89 3. Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State-Formation • Julia Adams 111 4. The Changing Cultural Content of the Nation-State: A World Society Perspective • John W. Meyer 136 Part Two: Culture and Early Modern State-Formation 158 5. Calvinism and State-Formation in Early Modern Europe • Philip S. Gorski 160 6. Nationalism, Universal Monarchy, and the Glorious Revolution • Steven Pincus 195 Part Three: Culture and the Modernization/Westernization of Non-European States 224 7. The Subvention of Tradition: A Genealogy of the Nigerian Durbar • Andrew Apter 226 8. Revolution and State Culture: The Circle of Justice and Constitutionalism in 1906 Iran • Nader Sohmbi 266 Part Four: Culture and the Modern Western State 302 9. The Cultural Elements of Ethnically Mixed States: Nationality Re-formation in the Soviet Successor States • David D. Laitin 304 10. Motherhood, Work, and Welfare in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia • Ann Shola Orloff 334 11. Political Belonging: Emotion, Nation, and Identity in Fascist Italy • Mabel Berezin 368 12. Narrating the Future of the National Economy and the National State: Remarks on Remapping Regulation and Reinventing Governance • Bob Jessop 391 Epilogue: Now Where? • Charles Tilly 420 Name Index 434 Subject Index 438 This book examines processes of state formation in light of the ongoing "cultural turn" in the social sciences.