Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. The State and American Political Thought 10
6. Chapter Two. Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the State 44
7. Chapter Three. Gramsci and the State 65
8. Chapter Four. Structuralism and the State: Althusser and Poulantzas 89
9. Chapter Five. The German Debate 128
10. Chapter Six. The State, Democracy, and the Transition to Socialism 153
11. Chapter Seven. The Dependent State 172
12. Chapter Eight. Class and State in Recent American Political Theory 208
13. Chapter Nine. Whither Theories of the State? 246
14. Selected Bibliography 263
15. Index 271
16. Backmatter 283