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The Changing Role of the State: Pressures and Compromises in Modern Governance

Explore the evolving dynamics of state functions in modern governance, analyzing the pressures and compromises faced in constitutional sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political legitimacy. Delve into the challenges posed by globalization, neo-liberalism, and the financial crisis.

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The Changing Role of the State: Pressures and Compromises in Modern Governance

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  1. The Changing Role of the State Øyvind Østerud University of Oslo Annual GINI Conference Islamabad, December 13-14, 2009

  2. The Idea of the Modern State Constitutional sovereignty Territorial integrity Political legitimacy Constitutional sovereignty: either/or Territorial integrity: continuous scale Political legitimacy: continuous scale

  3. The Idea of the Nation-State National integration An imagined community Distributive concensus Support for the rules of governing Unitary or federal states Federalism = vertical distribution of power

  4. The state: three basic compromises A compromise of scale: decentralisation internally – international law and cooperation externally (a compromise between polis and cosmopolis) A double social compromise: between social classes and between ethnic groups (= national integration) An economic-political compromise: growth and efficiancy on the one hand; participation and distribution on the other (the balance: embedded liberalism)

  5. The changing role of the state:Each of the three compromises under pressure • The first: • quests for secession; • transnational legalisation/judicialisation (the expansion of rights) • The second: • increasing inequalities; • ethnicisation of nationalism • The third: Globalisation tilts the balance (favouring growth above distribution) • The neo-liberal condition • The financial crisis: a new turn?

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