Translated by Peter Kennealy
English translation copyright © Polity Press 1989
First published as Stato, govemo, societa: Per una teoria generale della po/itica copyright © 1980, 1981, 1978 and, in the collection, copyright © 1985 Guilio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino
This translation first published 1989 by Polity Press
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First published in paperback 1997.
Reprinted 2006
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