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- Title: State and Race in the Brazilian Empire.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 264 KB
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Introduction The role of the state in the process of nation-building is now being recognized as essential at the structural level in order to understand how states are formed and organized in a reciprocal relationship with society's socioeconomic forces. This process, that places the state in the position of an independent actor, is beginning to be recognized as essential for explaining the organization of society, and therefore, the process of state-building. States have autonomy to set and to implement goals that cannot be achieved in the context of amorphous and rudderless groups not subjected even to some degree of coercion, as in the case of enforcing laws. Thus states are needed to maintain control and order, to conduct foreign relations, to initiate reforms, to coordinate economic development, to apply constitutional rules, and even to initiate a "revolution from above" (Oszlak, 1982). And the process differs from country to country.