The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

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.

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).

List of Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction

1

(6)

Kate Nash

Alan Scott

PART I APPROACHES TO POWER AND THE POLITICAL

Developments in Marxist Theory

7

(10)

Bob Jessop

Developments in Pluralist and Elite Approaches

17

(12)

Richard Bellamy

Rational Choice Approaches to Analyzing Power

29

(11)

Keith Dowding

Power, Government, Politics

40

(9)

Barry Hindess

Society, Morality, and Law: Jurgen Habermas

49

(11)

Max Pensky

A Political Sociology for Complex Societies: Niklas Luhmann

60

(11)

Stefan Lange

Uwe Schimank

``Postmodern'' Political Sociology

71

(11)

David Owen

Studying Power

82

(13)

John Scott

PART II THE STATE AND GOVERNANCE

Formation and Form

Theories of State Formation

95

(12)

Gianfranco Poggi

Political Legitimacy

107

(10)

David Beetham

Gender and the State

117

(10)

R. W. Connell

Political Processes

Administration, Civil Service, and Bureaucracy

127

(12)

Antonino Palumbo

Policy Networks

139

(10)

Peter John

Parties and Political Intermediation

149

(15)

Herbert Kitschelt

Protest and Political Process

164

(9)

David S. Meyer

The Media and Politics

173

(10)

John B. Thompson

Violence and the State

The Political Sociology of War

183

(12)

Alan Scott

Revolution

195

(13)

Michael Drake

Terror Against the State

208

(11)

Donatella della Porta

PART III THE POLITICAL AND THE SOCIAL

State and Civil Society

Civil Society and the Public Sphere

219

(11)

Larry Ray

Trust and Social Capital

230

(10)

Arnaldo Bagnasco

Markets and States

240

(10)

Colin Crouch

Markets Against States: Neo-liberalism

250

(11)

Fran Tonkiss

The Politics of Collective Identity and Action

Beyond New Social Movements: Social Conflicts and Institutions

261

(10)

Pierre Hamel

Louis Maheu

The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity

271

(10)

Aletta J. Norval

Imagined Communities

281

(10)

Alan Finlayson

Political Rituals

291

(11)

Sigrid Baringhorst

The Politics of Popular Culture

302

(10)

John Street

Body Politics

312

(11)

Roberta Sassatelli

Citizenship

Citizenship and Gender

323

(10)

Ruth Lister

Postnational Citizenship: Reconfiguring the Familiar Terrain

333

(9)

Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal

Governmentality and Citizenship

342

(13)

Giovanna Procacci

PART IV POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Democratization

Transformation, Transition, Consolidation: Democratization in Latin America

355

(11)

Joe Foweraker

Feminism and Democracy

366

(9)

Judith Squires

Postmodernization, Fragmentation, Globalization

Postmodernization

375

(11)

Jan Pakulski

Nationalism and Fragmentation Since 1989

386

(10)

John Schwarzmantel

A New Phase of the State Story in Europe

396

(11)

Patrick Le Gales

The ``Singapore Model'': Democracy, Communication, and Globalization

407

(11)

Danilo Zolo

Bibliography

418

(44)

Index

462

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