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Citizens and the State

This rich collection offers a unique assessment of public opinion in nine European and nine Asian countries. It is the most systematic and up-to-date cross-regional exploration of vital issues of contemporary politics. Scholars will find a treasure trove of highly relevant data and probing and imaginative interpretations.

Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies and Stephen Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow, Cornell University, USA

This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state. Their relationship has tended to be argued from a top-down perspective without systematically examining empirical data about their association. In contrast, Citizens and the State analyses the relationship from a primarily bottom-up standpoint. Using the 18 country cross-national survey (the Asia-Europe Survey) data it examines how citizens relate themselves to the state.

Featuring case studies on France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Greece, Italy, Korea, the Philippines, Portugal, Ireland, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and China, the book systematically examines the relationship by asking three questions:

how strongly do citizens identify themselves to the country?

how much confidence do citizens place in the state and its institutions?

how satisfied are citizens with life and politics?

Innovatively, this book attempts to answer these questions by first setting up six types of relationship between citizens and the state via factor analysis of the survey data pertaining identity, confidence and satisfaction, then by examining country profiles more closely and beyond the six types.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, political theory, comparative political science, Asian studies, European studies and sociology.

Takashi Inoguchi is Professor of Political Science, Chuo University, Tokyo and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Jean Blondel is Professorial Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Siena, Italy.

Routledge innovations in political theory

1 A Radical Green Political Theory

Alan Carter

2 Rational Woman

A feminist critique of dualism

Raia Prokhovnik

3 Rethinking State Theory

Mark J. Smith

4 Gramsci and Contemporary Politics

Beyond pessimism of the intellect

Anne Showstack Sassoon

5 Post-Ecologist Politics

Social theory and the abdication of the ecologist paradigm

Ingolfur Blhdorn

6 Ecological Relations

Susan Board

7 The Political Theory of Global Citizenship

April Carter

8 Democracy and National Pluralism

Edited by Ferran Requejo

9 Civil Society and Democratic Theory

Alternative voices

Gideon Baker

10 Ethics and Politics in Contemporary Theory

Between critical theory and post-marxism

Mark Devenney

11 Citizenship and Identity

Towards a new republic

John Schwarzmantel

12 Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights

Edited by Bruce Haddock and Peter Sutch

13 Political Theory of Global Justice

A cosmopolitan case for the World State

Luis Cabrera

14 Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism

Edited by Ramn Maiz and Ferrn Requejo

15 Political Reconciliation

Andrew Schaap

16 National Cultural Autonomy and Its Contemporary Critics

Edited by Ephraim Nimni

17 Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought

New theories of the political

Saul Newman

18 Capabilities Equality

Basic issues and problems

Edited by Alexander Kaufman

19 Morality and Nationalism

Catherine Frost

20 Principles and Political Order

The challenge of diversity

Edited by Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch

21 European Integration and the Nationalities Question

Edited by John McGarry and Michael Keating

22 Deliberation, Social Choice and Absolutist Democracy

David van Mill

23 Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice

Critical perspectives in political theory and practice

Edited by Barbara Arneil,
Monique Deveaux,
Rita Dhamoon and
Avigail Eisenberg

24 The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt

Terror, liberal war and the crisis of global order

Edited by Louiza Odysseos and Fabio Petito

25 In Defense of Human Rights

A non-religious grounding in a pluralistic world

Ari Kohen

26 Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory

Jason Glynos and David Howarth

27 Political Constructivism

Peri Roberts

28 The New Politics of Masculinity

Men, power and resistance

Fidelma Ashe

29 Citizens and the State

Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia

Takashi Inoguchi and Jean Blondel

Citizens and the State

Attitudes in Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia

Takashi Inoguchi and Jean Blondel

First published 2008

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Transferred to Digital Printing 2010

2008 Takashi Inoguchi and Jean Blondel

Typeset in Times by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN10: 0-415-45191-4 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-93811-9 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-45191-8 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-93811-9 (ebk)

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Preface

This book is about citizens and the state and their relationship. Our guiding question in tackling the subject is: Why has there been little empirical work that sheds light on how citizens relate themselves to the state? It is widely acknowledged that the theory of the state has long been a popular and fundamental subject in philosophy and social science. Yet most of the time, the state has been argued about in one direction or another without really tackling how citizens enable such a theory of the state to function. The preoccupation about the state has led many authors to be mildly or blatantly oblivious to the essential importance of citizens. Here our contention is that citizens do matter. The empirical ground on which the state works or does not work must be systematically examined on the basis of how citizens relate to the state. This is our guiding question and starting point.

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