Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, Alan Scott

Wiley-Blackwell Companion to P

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Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from an international, interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field.

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality ofthe discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in thefield.

Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from aninterdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing keyissues concerning globalization, social movements, andcitizenship
The majority of chapters are new, including those onenvironmental politics, international terrorism, security,corruption, and human rights
Revises and updates all previously published chapters toinclude new themes and topics in political sociology
Provides an overview of scholarship in the field, with chaptersworking independently and collectively to examine the full range ofcontributions to political sociology
Offers a challenging yet accessible and complete referenceguide for students and scholars

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Sociology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1158g
• ISBN-13: 9781444330939
• ISBN-10: 1444330934
• Artikelnr.: 34463768

Autorenporträt

Edwin Amenta is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and History, University of California, Irvine. He has published extensively on political sociology, social movements, historical and comparative sociology, and the news media. Kate Nash is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. She has published widely on political sociology and human rights. Alan Scott is Professor in the School of Cognitive, Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia. He researches and publishes in the area of political and organizational sociology, and social theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction xxi Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash and Alan
Scott PART I APPROACHES TO POWER AND POLITICS 1 Marxist Approaches to Power
3 Bob Jessop 2 Weber and Political Sociology 15 Peter Breiner 3 Durkheim
and Durkheimian Political Sociology 27 Kenneth Thompson 4 Foucaultian
Analysis of Power, Government, Politics 36 Barry Hindess 5 Historical
Institutionalism 47 Edwin Amenta 6 Sociological Institutionalism and World
Society 57 Evan Schofer, Ann Hironaka, David John Frank and Wesley
Longhofer 7 Studying Power 69 John Scott 8 Comparative Political Analysis:
Six Case-Oriented Strategies 78 Charles C. Ragin and Garrett Andrew
Schneider PART II STATES AND GOVERNANCE A. Formation and Form 9 Theories of
State Formation 95 Gianfranco Poggi 10 State 107 Desmond King and Patrick
Le Gale`s 11 Political Legitimacy 120 David Beetham 12 Political Corruption
130 Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci B. Governance and Political
Process 13 Parties and Interest Intermediation 144 Herbert Kitschelt 14
Interest Groups and Pluralism 158 David Knoke and Xi Zhu 15 Elections 168
Jeff Manza C. Violence and States 16 War 180 Antoine Bousquet 17 Terrorism
190 Jeff Goodwin 18 Globalization and Security 204 Didier Bigo 19
Incarceration as a Political Institution 214 Sarah Shannon and Christopher
Uggen PART III THE POLITICAL AND THE SOCIAL A. States and Civil Society 20
Culture, State and Policy 229 Brian Steensland and Christi M. Smith 21
Civil Society and the Public Sphere 240 Larry Ray 22 Trust and Social
Capital 252 Arnaldo Bagnasco 23 The Media and Politics 263 John B. Thompson
B. The Politics of Identity and Action 24 Imagined Communities 273 Alan
Finlayson 25 Gender, Power, Politics 283 Jonathan Dean 26 Class, Culture
and Politics 294 Mike Savage 27 The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity 305
Aletta J. Norval 28 Race and Politics 315 John D. Skrentny and René Patnode
29 Nationalism: Its Role and Significance in a Globalized World 325 John
Schwarzmantel 30 Religion and Political Sociology 336 Valérie Amiraux 31
Body Politics 347 Roberta Sassatelli C. Citizenship 32 Citizenship and
Welfare: Politics and Social Policies 360 Sven Hort and Göran Therborn 33
Citizenship and Gender 372 Ruth Lister 34 Post-national Citizenship: Rights
and Obligations of Individuality 383 Yasemin NuhogØlu Soysal PART IV
DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION A. Social Movements 35 Protest and Political
Process 397 David S. Meyer 36 Global Social Movements and Transnational
Advocacy 408 Valentine M. Moghadam 37 Global Governance and Environmental
Politics 421 Brenda Holzinger and Gabriela Kütting 38 Rural Social
Movements 431 Marc Edelman B. Structures of Participation 39 Towards a
Political Sociology of Human Rights 444 Kate Nash 40 Democratization 454
Dietrich Rueschemeyer 41 Feminism and Democracy 466 Judith Squires 42
Democracy and Capitalism in the Wake of the Financial Crisis 478 Colin
Crouch References 491 Index 565