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State Formation

State Formation is a historical and sociopolitical process designating the emergence and institutional consolidation of centralized, sovereign political authorities within territorially bounded jurisdictions, distinguished from related processes of governance or political organization by its specific trajectory toward the monopolization of legitimate force, administrative bureaucratization, and the juridical codification of statehood within the modern international system.

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323

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State Formation In Comparative Perspective

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Karen Johnson, Robert Nozick · The Western Political Quarterly · 1975 · 7.8K citations

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

John T. Granrose · Social Theory and Practice · 1975 · 3.3K citations

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Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990.

Peter Sahlins, Charles Tilly · The American Historical Review · 1991 · 3.2K citations

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Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist · 2002 · 2.6K citations

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The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms and results

Michael Mann · European Journal of Sociology · 1984 · 2.6K citations

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  1. IA
    Ilias Alami

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    10 publications · 820 citations

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  2. PK
    Pål Kolstø

    University of Oslo, Norway

    8 publications · 726 citations

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  3. SD
    Stephen D. Krasner

    Stanford University, United States

    9 publications · 2.9K citations

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  4. AD
    Adam D. Dixon

    Maastricht University, Netherlands

    8 publications · 786 citations

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  5. ЛГ
    Леонид Гринин

    National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

    8 publications · 182 citations

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Institutions

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    27 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    16 h-index

    20 publications

    2.5K citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    16 h-index

    20 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    15 h-index

    22 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    20 publications

    785 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    18 publications

    629 citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    14 h-index

    19 publications

    2.7K citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 122 publications · 13.2K citations

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  2. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 43 publications · 10.5K citations

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  3. Third World Quarterly

    41 publications · 2.3K citations

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  4. Review of International Studies

    32 publications · 2.3K citations

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  5. Foreign Affairs

    26 publications · 6.5K citations

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