Nash / Scott The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69532-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Sociology

The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology bringstogether thirty-eight original essays covering the wideinter-disciplinary field of political sociology.
* * Represents the most comprehensive overview available in thefield of political sociology
* * Covers traditional questions as well as emerging topicsincluding recent debates on gender, citizenship, and politicalidentity
* * Includes detailed editorial introduction, abstracts, furtherreading lists, and a consolidated bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nash, Kate

Scott, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Kate Nash and Alan Scott).
Part I: Approaches to Power and The Political.
1. Marxist Approaches to Power (Bob Jessop, University ofLancaster).
2. Pluralism and Elitism (Richard Bellamy, University ofReading).
3. Rational Choice Approaches to Analyzing Power (Keith Dowding,London School of Economics).
4. Power, Government, Politics (Barry Hindess, AustralianNational University).
5. Society, Morality and Law: Jurgen Habermas (Max Pensky, SUNYBinghampton).
6. A Political Sociology for Complex Societies (Niklas Luhmann,Stefan Lange and Uwe Schimank, Fernuniversität, Hagen,Germany).
7. "Postmodern" Political Sociology (David Owen, University ofSouthampton).
8. Studying Power (John Scott, University of Essex).
Part II: The State and Governance.
Formation and Form.
9. Theories of State Formation (Gianfranco Poggi, EuropeanUniversity Institute, Florence).
10. Political Legitimacy (David Beetham, University ofLeeds).
11. Gender and the State (Robert W. Connell, University ofSydney).
Political Processes.
12. Administration, Civil Service and Bureaucracy (AntoninoPalumbo, University of Palermo).
13. Policy Networks (Peter John, University of London).
14. Parties and Interest Intermediation (Herbert Kitschelt, DukeUniversity).
15. Social Movements and Political Process (David Meyer,University of California-Irvine).
16. The Media and Politics (John B. Thompson, University ofCambridge).
Violence and the State.
17. The Political Sociology of War (Alan Scott, University ofInnsbruck, Austria).
18. Revolution (Michael Drake, University of East Anglia).
19. Terror Against the State (Donatella della Porta, Universityof Florence).
Part III: The Political and The Social.
State and Civil Society.
20. Civil Society and the Public Sphere (Larry Ray, Universityof Kent).
21. Trust and Social Capital (Arnaldo Bagnasco, University ofTurin, Italy).
22. The State and the Market (Colin Crouch, European UniversityInstitute, Florence).
23. Markets Against States: Neo-Liberalism (Fran Tonkiss,University of London).
The Politics of Collective Identity and Action.
24. Beyond New Social Movements: Social Conflicts andInstitutions (Pierre Hamel and Louis Maheu, University ofMontreal).
25. The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity (Aletta Norval,University of Essex).
26. Imagined Communities Alan Finlayson (University of Wales,Swansea).
27. Political Rituals (Sigrid Baringhorst, University ofTechnology at Sydney).
28. The Politics of Popular Culture (John Street, University ofEast Anglia).
29. Body Politic (Roberta Sassatelli, University of EastAnglia).
Citizenship.
30. Citizenship and Gender (Ruth Lister, LoughboroughUniversity).
31. Post-National Citizenship: Reconfiguring the FamiliarTerrain (Yasemin Soysal, University of Essex).
32. Government and Citizenship (Giovanna Procacci, University ofMilan).
Part IV: Political Transformations.
Democratization.
33. Transformation, Transition, Consolidation: Democratizationin Latin America (Joe Foweraker, University of Essex).
34. Feminism and Democracy (Judith Squires, University ofBristol).
Postmodernization, Fragmentation, Globalization.
35. Postmodernization of Politics (Jan Pakulski, University ofTasmania).
36. Nationalism and Fragmentation Since 1989 (JohnSchwarzmantel, University of Leeds).
37. A New Phase of the State Story in Europe (Patrick Le Gales,CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris)).
38. The "Singapore Model": Democracy, Communication, andGlobalization (Danilo Zolo, University of Florence).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Nash is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College,University of London. Her publications include UniversalDifference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of "Women"(1998) and Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization,Politics, and Power (Blackwell, 2000), and editor ofReadings in Contemporary Political Sociology (Blackwell,2000).
Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University ofInnsbruck, Austria. He is the author of Ideology and the NewSocial Movements (1990) and editor of The Limits ofGlobalization (1997). He has recently completed co-editing andco-translating (with Helmut Staubmann) Georg Simmel'sRembrandt: a Philosophical Essay (2004).