tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post894232181603223484..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Levels of politicsDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-42799720224940803492011-10-23T23:08:28.658-04:002011-10-23T23:08:28.658-04:00You probably know this, but when international rel...You probably know this, but when international relations folks talk about "levels" in politics, they generally are referring to movement along the micro-macro spectrum, in the context of the national government. In 1959 Waltz wrote in *Man, the State, and War* about three "images" of politics: the individual, the state, the international system. The levels-of-analysis issue is a fairly large one in IR and comparative politics. Putnam wrote about "two-level games", Gourevitch wrote about "the second image reversed", Legro and Moravcsik wrote about a "two-step" across levels of analysis. Etc.<br /><br />As you say, this doesn't give necessarily give us much leverage on subnational politics. My understanding is that people who study state and local politics in the US, or comparativists that study subnational politics in foreign states, they will often (tho not always) treat them as isolated units, distinct from the national government.Kindred Winecoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14330671232391851377noreply@blogger.com