Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society

PAUL BLACKLEDGE Senior Lecturer in Politics, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKGEORGE A. GONZALEZ Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, USAJOHN HOFFMAN Retired Professor of Political Theory, University of Leicester, UKBOB JESSOP Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UKJOHN F. MANLEY Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stanford University, USAMICHAEL NEWMAN Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration Studies and Professor of Politics, London Metropolitan University, UKLEO PANITCH Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy, York University, Toronto, Canada

'I would certainly recommend this book to scholars in political theory and especially to those interested in Marxist state theory.' - Edward Rooksby, Political Studies Review

• Preface; L.Panitch Introduction; C.Barrow, P.Wetherly & P.Burnham Ralph Miliband and the New Left; M.Newman Parliamentary Socialism, Labourism and Beyond; P.Burnham On Moving on from "Moving On": Miliband, Marxism and Politics; P.Blackledge Ralph Miliband and the Instrumentalist Theory of the State: The (Mis)Construction of An Analytic Concept; C.Barrow Can Capitalists Use The State To Serve Their General Interests?; P.Wetherly Dialogue of the Deaf: Some Reflections on the Poulantzas-Miliband Debate; B.Jessop 'Miliband and the Withering Away of the State'; J.Hoffman Theorizing the Unexceptional US Welfare State; J.Manley The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Environmental Groups or Business Dominance?; G.A.Gonzales Conclusion: Miliband for a Sceptical Age?; P.Wetherly, C.Barrow & P.Burnham