ABSTRACT
Severalgenerationsofhistoricalsociologistshavestudiedthemodern bureaucraticstatewithintheBarringtonMooretradition,asportrayed inMoore'sclassicbookTheSocialOriginsofDictatorshipandDemocracy(1966),atraditionwhichhasbeenthestartingpointofmyrecent work(Starr1992).1Withinthistradition,ThedaSkocpol'sStatesand SocialRevolutions(1979)extendsboththeliberalandtheMarxist conceptionsofthenation-state.2Skocpoldiscussesthestateasanarena wheredifferentstateinstitutionsmayfightoverresources(1979:25). Eachbureaumayhaveconflictingagendas,andevendifferentsectors andagentswithinadepartmentofstatemayhaveagendasthatare directlyopposedtothoseofothermembersofthatdepartment. Moore'sfollowersdonotconceptualize"thestate"asoneconglomerate,oppressivewholebutconsidersignificantoppositionalunits, breakingstatestructuresdownintodifferentbureaus,units,agencies, andsometimesevenindividualagents,whicharedescribedwithina delineatedtimeperiod.Thissuggeststhatinanalyzingresistanceto nation-states,itmaybenecessarytodifferentiateanddescribeseparatelyseveraldifferentunits.
