What does the ruling class do when it rules? : State apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism / Goran Therborn.

Second impression, 1980.

Science and politics - a foreword, 11 -- Part One. The dictatorship of the proletariat and the class character of the state apparatus, 23 -- I. The problem and the questions, 23 -- II. (Provisional) answers, 49 -- Part Two. State power - on the dialectics of class rule, 129 -- 1. Class, State, and power, 129 -- 2. Finding the ruling class: defining the class character of state power, 144 -- 3. Determinants of state power: the state in the reproduction of society, 162 -- 4. Wielding State power I: formats of representation, 180 -- 5 Wielding State power II: processes of mediation, 219 -- Summing-Up, 241 -- Part Three. Taking State power from advanced capitalism: some reflections on socialism and democracy, 247 -- I. The history of the present, 247 -- 2. The future as history, 272 -- Index, 284.