State+Formation

>  Carl Schmitt, 1932, The Concept of the Political
 * Poggi 1978 Development of Modern State
 * Spruyt 1994 Sovereign state and its competitors
 * Tilly (1992) Coercion, Capital and European States AD 990 - 1992 (EVERYONE READS)
 * Downing (1992) The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe.
 * Downing “Constitutionalism, warfare and political change in early modern Europe” Theory and Society, 17. [article] (EVERYONE READS)
 * Gorski (2003) The Disciplinary Revolution
 * Adams (1999) “Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
 * Padgett and Ansell (1993) “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
 * Lipset, S.M., 1960, Political Man
 * Brustein, The Logic of Evil, 1996
 * Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power, Vol. I & II, 1993, 1996
 * Thomas Ertman (1997) Birth of the Leviathan (EVERYONE READS)
 * Julia Adams, 2005, The Familial State
 * Perry Anderson, 1974, Lineages of the Absolutist State
 * Immanuel Wallerstein (1974-1989) “The Modern World System”
 * Sewell Jr., William H., 1996, “Three temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology” [chapter/article] (EVERYONE READS)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ronald Aminzade (1992) – “Historical sociology and time” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reinhard Bendix Kings or people: Power and the mandate to rule (1978)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Miguel Centeno – “Blood and debt” (1997)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Douglas North “Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance” [HOLD OFF]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Douglas North and Barry Weingast “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th century England” The Journal of Economic History, 1989. [article] (EVERYONE READS)