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

Michael Mann · European Journal of Sociology 25(2), 185–213 · 1984

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Article
Author
Michael Mann
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DOI 10.1017/S0003975600004239

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TheoryMann (1984) distinguished despotic power, the range of actions state elites can take without negotiating with civil society, from infrastructural power, the capacity of the state to penetrate society and implement its decisions.