Chapter 2

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SAGE Journals User Guide

Axtmann, R. (2004). The State of the State: The Model of the Modern State and its Contemporary Transformation. International Political Science Review 25(3). 259-279.

• What are the key concepts of the modern state?
   
• How has the modern state transformed?
   
• What caused the transformation?

Bunce, V. (August/September 2000). Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations. Comparative Political Studies 33(6/7). 703-734.

• What are the main “big generalizations” about democracies and democratization about which most scholars agree?
   
• What are the main “bounded generalizations” about which most scholars agree?