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(2017) Bourdieu's theory of the state, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter outlines Bourdieu's theory of state formation. This entails examining the development of the state from the twelfth century to modern-day contemporary society. Bourdieu talks about four stages in state formation involving the concentration of various capitals and the development of a state bureaucracy with an interest in pursuing the public interest, or universal.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58350-5_6
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Loyal, S. (2017). State formation, in Bourdieu's theory of the state, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 95-108.
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