Book/Printed Material The concealment of the state

Title

• The concealment of the state

Summary

• "Increasingly, politicians and policymakers insist that the market is an immovable force that constraints their ability to act. At the same time, states strive to retain their sovereignty while claiming to be part of a global system. This dichotomy reveals a dominant contemporary ideology: the concealment of the state. This accessible book draws upon the anarchist criticism of the state to show the ideological and functional logic behind such concealment. It explains how states hide their ability to act by separating politics into a deep and shallow state, where political actors in the shallow state are free from policy formulation and implementation, which rests with the deep state. For example, American politicians deny global warming as the Pentagon plans to open new Arctic sea routes. Such transfer of policy to a less visible state is demonstrated through concrete international policy examples, including environmental regulations, budget recommendations, workplace safety, scientific investment, transportation planning, and education. The anarchist tradition shows how this concealment can be exposed so that popular political activity can challenge it more effectively"-- Provided by publisher.
• "Increasingly, politicians and policymakers insist that the market is an immovable force that constraints their ability to act. At the same time, states strive to retain their sovereignty while claiming to be part of a global system. This dichotomy reveals a dominant contemporary ideology: the concealment of the state.This accessible book draws upon the anarchist criticism of the state to show the ideological and functional logic behind such concealment. It explains how states hide their ability to act by separating politics into a deep and shallow state, where political actors in the shallow state are free from policy formulation and implementation, which rests with the deep state. For example, American politicians deny global warming as the Pentagon plans to open new Arctic sea routes. Such transfer of policy to a less visible state is demonstrated through concrete international policy examples, including environmental regulations, budget recommendations, workplace safety, scientific investment, transportation planning, and education. The anarchist tradition shows how this concealment can be exposed so that popular political activity can challenge it more effectively"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Lindsey, Jason Royce

Created / Published

• New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1: The Concealment of the State Chapter 2: Deep and Shallow StateChapter 3: Theories of the StateChapter 4: Engines of OppressionChapter 5: A Postindustrial Peasantry?Chapter 6: ConclusionBibliographyIndex.

Headings

• -  Anarchism
• -  Capitalism
• -  Sovereignty
• -  State, The
• -  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (x, 181 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• JC11

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020719076

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020719076

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020719076

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