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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):3-12; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp001
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Editorial: Rescaling the state: new modes of institutional–territorial organization

Linda Lobaoa, Ron Martinb and Andrés Rodríguez-Posec

a Departments of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. lobao.1@osu.edu
b Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. rlm1@cam.ac.uk
c Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. a.rodriguez-pose@lse.ac.uk

Received on January 6, 2009. Accepted on January 6, 2009.

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   The modern state in transformation
 
Over the past 100 years, modern Western states have undergone two historic transformations. The first occurred between the 1920s and the 1940s, when the liberal, non-interventionist form that had dominated the 19th and earlier centuries gave way to the Keynesian welfare interventionist (or Fordist) form. From its origins in the 1930s (in the UK, the USA and Sweden), the Keynesian welfare state project emerged as the dominant post-war model of social and economic regulation among many of the advanced industrialized nations. Its twin goals were the stabilization of the inherent cyclical instabilities of capitalist growth and the construction of mass societal support and cohesion through the maintenance of full employment and provision of a public welfare system. Of course, nation states pursued different . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The ‘rescaling’ issue
 

   The contributions
 

   Rescaling the state: challenges for future research
 

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