The modern state has been effectively shrinking for years, not growing

Evidence

All those who share in the great state phobia should know that they are following the direction of the wind and that in fact, for years and years, an effective reduction of the state has been on the way, a reduction of both the growth of state control and of a “statifying” and “statified” a German invasion of England, which had be~n definitively averted by then. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1018

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern state disintegration is worse than medieval because it lacks integrative forces — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1005; Twentieth-century states have been reduced via party or liberal governmentality — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1018; The modern state is a contingent European invention not a timeless truth (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern state disintegration is worse than medieval because it lacks integrative forces #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1005
• Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state #contradicts (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128
• Twentieth-century states have been reduced via party or liberal governmentality #corroborates (0.70) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1018
• The modern state is a contingent European invention not a timeless truth #corroborates (0.70)
• Austerity prescribed shrinking government so natural economic laws could operate #contradicts (0.70) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 786