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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 5, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(1):123-139; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp002
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This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: Rescaling The State [View the issue table of contents]

Open questions on state rescaling

Neil Brenner

Department of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies Program, New York University, Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 4th floor, NY 10012, USA. neil.brenner{at}nyu.edu


  Abstract

Recent work on state rescaling has opened up productive lines of theorization and research. However, this literature contains many open theoretical, interpretive, methodological and empirical questions. By drawing attention to several of these, this article aims to promote reflection and debate on possible future lines of research within this field. I argue, in particular, for greater attention to questions of method—specifically, to the mediations linking abstract concepts to concrete, contextually specific investigations. The article concludes by outlining three research frontiers that could be productively explored within future work on state rescaling—logics of explanation, comparative analyses and questions of periodization.

Keywords: state space, state rescaling, political economy of scale, periodization

Received on January 3, 2009. Accepted on January 7, 2009.

JEL Classifications: B5, F59, R38


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