Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology) - Tapa blanda

He, Wenkai

 
9781009334556: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology)
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ISBN 10: 1009334557 ISBN 13: 9781009334556
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Sinopsis

How were state formation and early modern politics shaped by the state's proclaimed obligation to domestic welfare? Drawing on a wide range of historical scholarship and primary sources, this book demonstrates that a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation was common to early modern England, Japan, and China. This normative platform served as a shared basis on which state and society could negotiate and collaborate over how to attain good governance through providing public goods such as famine relief and infrastructural facilities. The terms of state legitimacy opened a limited yet significant political space for the ruled. Through petitioning and protests, subordinates could demand that the state fulfil its publicly proclaimed duty and redress welfare grievances. Conflicts among diverse dimensions of public interest mobilized cross-regional and cross-sectoral collective petitions; justified by the same norms of state legitimacy, these petitions called for fundamental political reforms and transformed the nature of politics.

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Wenkai He is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1009334557
ISBN 13 
9781009334556
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Número de páginas
324
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9781009334518: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology)

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Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2023
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