Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State by... - 9781138887428

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Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist StateAuthor(s): Jens Borchert, Stephan Lessenich\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138887428, 978-1138887428\nSynopsis\nBack in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically, began to wane as the issues about which Offe had been writing became even more prominent: the \""Contradictions of the Welfare State\"" (the title of a collection of Offes main contributions to the debate published in English in 1984) and democratic capitalisms reality of the permanent \""crises of crisis management\"". Since 2008, it has again become a widely shared diagnosis that advanced capitalism is in crisis. However, there is either sc.