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9781405122658

The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

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  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-07
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology brings together thirty-eight original essays covering the wide inter-disciplinary field of political sociology. Represents the most comprehensive overview available in the field of political sociologyCovers traditional questions as well as emerging topics including recent debates on gender, citizenship, and political identityIncludes detailed editorial introduction, abstracts, further reading lists, and a consolidated bibliography.

Author Biography

Kate Nash is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her publications include Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of "Women" (1998) and Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and Power (Blackwell, 2000), and editor of Readings in Contemporary Political Sociology (Blackwell, 2000).

Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is the author of Ideology and the New Social Movements (1990) and editor of The Limits of Globalization (1997). He has recently completed co-editing and co-translating (with Helmut Staubmann) Georg Simmel’s Rembrandt: a Philosophical Essay (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1(6)
Kate Nash and Alan Scott
PART I APPROACHES TO POWER AND THE POLITICAL
1 Developments in Marxist Theory
7(10)
Bob Jessop
2 Developments in Pluralist and Elite Approaches
17(12)
Richard Bellamy
3 Rational Choice Approaches to Analyzing Power
29(11)
Keith Dowding
4 Power, Government, Politics
40(9)
Barry Hindess
5 Society, Morality, and Law: Jurgen Habermas
49(11)
Max Pensky
6 A Political Sociology for Complex Societies: Niklas Luhmann
60(11)
Stefan Lange and Uwe Schimank
7 "Postmodern" Political Sociology
71(11)
David Owen
8 Studying Power
82
John Scott
PART II THE STATE AND GOVERNANCE
Formation and Form
9 Theories of State Formation
95(1)
Gianfranco Poggi
10 Political Legitimacy
107(10)
David Beetham
11 Gender and the State
117(10)
R.W. Connell
Political Processes
12 Administration, Civil Service, and Bureaucracy
127(12)
Antonino Palumbo
13 Policy Networks
139(10)
Peter John
14 Parties and Political Intermediation
149(15)
Herbert Kitschelt
15 Protest and Political Process
164(9)
David S. Meyer
16 The Media and Politics
173(10)
John B. Thompson
Violence and the State
17 The Political Sociology of War
183(12)
Alan Scott
18 Revolution
195(13)
Michael Drake
19 Terror Against the State
208(11)
Donatella della Porta
PART III THE POLITICAL AND THE SOCIAL
State and Civil Society
20 Civil Society and the Public Sphere
219(11)
Larry Ray
21 Frust and Social Capital
230(10)
Arnaldo Bagnasco
22 Markets and States
240(10)
Colin Crouch
23 Markets Against States: Neo-liberalism
250(11)
Fran Tonkiss
The Politics of Collective Identity and Action
24 Beyond New Social Movements: Social Conflicts and Institutions
261(10)
Pierre Hamel and Louis Maheu
25 The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity
271(10)
Aletta J. Norval
26 Imagined Communities
281(10)
Alan Finlayson
27 Political Rituals
291(11)
Sigrid Baringhorst
28 The Politics of Popular Culture
302(10)
John Street
29 Body Politics
312(11)
Roberta Sassatelli
Citizenship
30 Citizenship and Gender
323(10)
Ruth Lister
31 Postnational Citizenship: Reconfiguring the Familiar Terrain
333(9)
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
32 Governmentality and Citizenship
342(13)
Giovanna Procacci
PART IV POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Democratization
33 Transformation, Transition, Consolidation: Democratization in Latin America
355(11)
Joe Foweraker
34 Feminism and Democracy
366(9)
Judith Squires
Postmodernization, Fragmentation, Globalization
35 Postmodernization
375(11)
Jan Pakulski
36 Nationalism and Fragmentation Since 1989
386(10)
John Schwarzmantel
37 A New Phase of the State Story in Europe
396(11)
Patrick Le Gales
38 The "Singapore Model": Democracy, Communication, and Globalization
407(11)
Danilo Zolo
Bibliography 418(44)
Index 462

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