Power: A Critical Reader

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to political sociologists, this volume provides a unique mix of theoretical and empirical pieces such as state and electoral politics that address classic issues in political sociology, as well as more recent developments such as globalization. The reader offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism, power structure theory.The reader examines critical theories of power, electoral politics, the welfare state, nation states and the global economy, revolution, and social movements.For those interested in the issues of political socialism.