The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

by Nash, Kate; Scott, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781405122658
• ISBN10: 140512265X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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