PK theories of the state? Request for bibliographic references

[Colin Danby <danby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Post Keynesians routinely assume states, as a bundle of functions like
taxing, spending, issuing money, enforcing contracts and so forth that
are exercised over a more or less bounded (i.e. national) set of people
and institutions.  They less often theorize states.  (That is, there's a
lot written about what government should do but rather less on what
government is.)  An exception is Hicks, whose _A Theory of Economic
History_ does set out a simple functionalist theory of the state.

I'm interested mainly in post-WWII PK thought.  I think Keynes had an
implicit political theory, but I don't think that's what informs most
contemporary Post Keynesianism.

Can folks point me to PK articles or books that set out a theory of the
state, or which link their work explicitly to specific theories of the
state?  Are there any works which have looked critically at how PK
theorists have understood states?

I asked a similar question five years ago on this list and the response
was that there was little work of this kind.  But it seems worth asking
again.

Best, Colin

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