Reconfiguring European States in Crisis

• 1: Patrick Le Galès and Desmond King: A Reconfigured State: European Policy States in a Globalizing World


• Part 1. Changing Scales of European States


• 2: Christopher Bickerton: Nation-State to Member State: Trajectories of State Transformation and Re-Composition in Europe


• 3: Philipp Genschel and Bernhard Zangl: The Rise of Non-State Authority and the Transformation of the State


• 4: Sabino Cassese: From the Nation State to the Global Polity


• 5: Hendrik Spruyt: Unbundling Sovereign Rights through Incomplete Contracting: Empowering European Transnational Networks beyond the State


• 6: Michael Keating: The Territorial State


• Part 2. Capitalism Against the State?


• 7: Wolfgang Streeck: A New Regime: The Consolidation State


• 8: Laszlo Bruszt and Visnja Vukov: European Integration and the Evolution of Economic State Capacities in Southern and Eastern Europe


• 9: Mark Thatcher: The Reshaping of Economic Markets and the State


• 10: Cornelia Woll: State Capacity in Financial Times


• 11: Erik Jones and Gregory W. Fuller: Financial Integration and the National State


• 12: Colin Crouch: The Limitations of the Limited State: Neoliberal Theory Meets the Real World


• Part 3. Rationalization and Knowledge


• 13: Philippe Bezes: The Neo-Managerial Turn of Bureaucratic States


• 14: Niamh Hardiman: Tracking the State in a Liberal Democracy


• 15: Jenny Andersson: Governing Futures: States and the Management of Expectations


• 16: Benjamin Lemoine: Measuring and Transforming the State: Finance-inspired Debt Metrics and the Fragile Economic and Social Order


• 17: Bruno Palier and Colin Hay: The Reconfiguration of the Welfare State in Europe: Paying its Way in an Age of Austerity

Desmond King is Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and Fellow, Nuffield College, having previously been a Fellow and Professor of Politics at St John's College, Oxford of which he is now an Emeritus Fellow, and a Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His many publications include Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government (OUP 2007), In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in Britain and the USA (OUP 1999), Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard UP 2002), and most recently Fed Power: How Finance Wins (with Lawrence Jacobs, OUP 2016).



Patrick Le Galès, is CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics, at Sciences Po Paris, Centre d'études européennes and founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School. His many publications include: European Cities (OUP 2002), The New Labour Experiment (with Florence Faucher, Stanford UP 2010), and Globalising Minds, Roots in the City (with Alberta Andreotti & Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Wiley 2015).

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis remains a major contribution to research on the state in the 21st century. Samuel B. H. Faure, la vie de idées