State Power

"Jessop is excellent on the paradox of the state. His overall substantive project is about as exciting as it gets."
British Journal of Sociology

"Jessop's book draws upon extensive reading to provide some useful methodological pointers for analysing states and challenges crude approaches to state power, including simplistic oppositions of state and civil society, politics and economics, global and national."
International Socialism

"Definitive, in the fullest sense of the word, State Power represents the culmination of three decades of path-breaking work from the world?s most restlessly creative state theorist. This is Jessop's tour de force."
Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Bob Jessop has long been one of the most outstanding and influential contemporary exponents of state theory. In his new book he returns to reconsider some of the theoretical sources of his own distinctive strategic-relational approach ? Marx, Gramsci, Foucault, and, above all, Nicos Poulantzas ? before, suitably refreshed, addressing more substantive issues. The resulting reflections will be of great value to anyone struggling to make sense of the state in the era of neo-liberal globalization."
Alex Callinicos, King's College London

"Not for the first time, Bob Jessop's theoretically sophisticated and empirically astute dissection of social and political trends serves to breathe fresh life into the theory of the capitalist state. Yet what sets this work apart, above all, is the way in which it draws together three decades of profound insight into a tightly integrated framework for social, political and economic analysis. This, the most complete statement of the strategic-relational approach, should be required reading for all analysts, students and, ideally, all agents and subjects of state power."
Colin Hay, University of Sheffield