> i believe that there was an article by james miller in review of radical political economy analyzing different marxist theories of the state.<
It's _John_ Miller and the Review of Radical Political _Economics_. John has published stuff on O'Connor elsewhere. >bob jessop makes brief reference to o connor in his state: putting capitalist states in their place. Jessop attempts to replace o'connor's dual categorization of state expenditures in terms either 'accumulation' or 'legitimation' with the couplet 'accumulation strategy' and 'hegemonic project'.< Sam Bowles & Herb Gintis, in their SCHOOLING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA, write of the contradiction between accumulation and the reproduction of social relations with direct reference to O'Connor (pp. 231f). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine