state capacity. Its concern is not the question how reforms alter state capacity, but rather in which way one group of … actors in terms of changing state capacity, we will not be able to sketch out in which manner the state is changing. The … alteration of the structures and capacity of the state. The entrepreneurs' strategy is interest-led as they act in the interest …

time regime? This article looks at the Covid-19 pandemic and respective state interventions from a perspective inspired by … can be understood as the result of a collision of opposing temporal logics. In order to contain the pandemic, the state … - commodification and rational use of time, acceleration, and appropriation of the future. This 'return of the state' as a power …

differently than in the US and the EU. The party-state is the (partial) owner of important companies and openly intervenes in the … authority. At the same time, the party-state organizes its rule through output legitimacy and functions in many respects as an … indicator-driven, meritocratic system. The expansion of hybrid Chinese party-state capitalism is therefore leading to a new …

Germany and France offer two different models of political and administrative organisation: a federal state on one side … of the Rhine and a unitary state on the other, albeit one that has become more decentralised over the last 40 years. Thus …

discusses the role of the state as an agent of capital in general and media capital in particular. It discusses the role of the … state in privatisations, neoliberal deregulation, the formation of national com- petitive states, and various benefits that … the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural …