End of the Democratic State

Jean-Numa Ducange is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rouen, France.Razmig Keucheyan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bordeaux, France. David Broder received his PhD in History from the London School of Economics, UK.

• 1. the State and the Democratic Road to Socialism.- 2. Nicos Poulantzas’s Strategic Reflection, Between Economics and Politics.- 3. the Capitalist State, Hegemony and the Democratic Transformation Toward Socialism.- 4. Specters of ‘Totalitarianism’: Poulantzas Faced with Fascism and the State of Exception.- 5. the Comintern’s Uncertain Heritage.- 6. The Eurocommunism of the Intellectuals: Poulantzas and the Third Way to Socialism.- 7. the Ligue Communiste RéVolutionnaire, Nicos Poulantzas, and the Reception and Discussion of His Theory.- 8. Poulantzas: From Law to the State.- 9. Geographies of the State: Nicos Poulantzas and Contemporary Approaches to State/Space.- 10. A European Capitalism? Revisiting the Mandel-Poulantzas Debate.