Introduction
| DOI | 10.1177/019251218600700201 |
| Published date | 01 April 1986 |
| Date | 01 April 1986 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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INTRODUCTION
Most
of
the
articles
included
in
this
issue
were
originally
presented
at
the
congress
of
the
International
Political
Science
Association
held
in
Paris
in
July
1985
(the
articles
by
von
Beyme,
Cassese,
Therborn,
and
Olson).
To
these
articles,
one
by
L6on
Dion
and
one
by
Karl
Deutsch
have
been
added.
That
by
Deutsch
was
prepared
for
a
round-
table
held
in
Berlin,
GDR,
in
August,
1984
(other
articles
presented
at
that
same
conference
have
appeared
in
Volume
6,
No.
1 of
this
Review).
The
article
by
L6on
Dion
was
read
at
the
June,
1985
meeting
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Canada
held
in
Montreal.
The
diversity
of
origins
of
these
articles
illustrates
how
widely
spread
is
the
regaining
interest
in
the
study
of
the
state.
But
the
more
obvious
evidence
of
the
universality
of
this
interest,
among
political
scientists,
is
in
the
fact
that,
under
the
presidency
of
Klaus
von
Beyme,
the
program
committee
of
the
IPSA,
chaired
by
Francesco
Kjellberg,
chose
&dquo;The
Changing
State&dquo;
as
the
theme
of
a
world
congress.
Von
Beyme
remarks,
in
his
introductory
article,
that
British
and
American
political
scientists
are
still
more
likely
to
say
&dquo;government&dquo;
when
their
French
and
German
colleagues
prefer
to
say
&dquo;state,&dquo;
but
none
of
the
more
than
30
national
associations
of
which
the
IPSA
is
composed,
nor
any
of
their
repre-
sentatives-none
of
the
Americans
and
none
of
the
Canadians
in
par-
ticular-appear
to
have
been
puzzled
by
the
theme
selected
for
their
debates.
Is
this
another
example
of
the
Europeanization
of
North
America?
Or
is
it,
rather,
that
even
during
the
height
of
micro-
psychological
studies,
many
political
scientists,
in
the
United
States
as
elsewhere,
had
not
forgotten
that
the
state,
although
they
no
longer
looked
at
it
directly,
continued
to
be
one
important,
if
not
the
most
significant,
major
political
actor
that
required
the
attention
of
their
discipline?
Is
such
regaining
of
attention
for
the
concept
of
the
state
beneficial
or
not?
No,
says
Cassese;
yes,
or
yes
but,
says
von
Beyme.
Thus,
an
issue
devoted
to
the
state
begins
with
a
debate
about
con-
cepts
and
research
categories.
We are
particularly
grateful
to
Francesco
Kjellberg
for
initiating
this
issue
and
for
coordinating
the
publication
of
the
first
four
articles,
those
read
at
the
Paris
congress.
—The
Editorial
Committee
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