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Introduction - state, society and history, Rolf Torstendahl. Part 1 Therole of the state in state theory: state theory and state development -states as network structures in change in modern European history, Bo Strathand Rolf Torstendahl; refocusing the debate on the role of the state incapitalist societies, Robert Hannenman and J. Rogers Hollingsworth. Part 2The constitution of the state and its policy: the suffrage and the rise ofpolitical modernity - a global perspective on trajectories and contexts,Goran Therborn; democratization, social policy and state structure -reflections on late 19th-century England and Germany, Johan de Deken andDietrich Ruschemeyer; restructuring social conditions - state, policy andregime, T.J. Pempel; the constitution of poverty, Douglas Ashford. Part 3Particular interests and their relation to the state: states under threat - acomparison of the use of engineering, legal and medical knowledge by thestate in France and Britain, Michael Burrage; local collective choice withoutand with the state, Peter Bogason; particularism versus universalism within astrong state - the case of the French Jewish civil servant, Pierre Birnbaum.