Contents // Notes on Contributors // Introduction // ix // 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 Br einer // 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 // Charles C. Ragin and Garrett Andrew Schneider // 78 // VI CONTENTS // PART II STATES AND GOVERNANCE // A Formation and Form // 9 Theories of State Formation // Gianfranco Poggi // 10 State // Desmond King and Patrick Le Gales // 11 Political Legitimacy // David Beetham // 12 Political Corruption // Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci // B. Governance and Political Process // 13 Parties and Interest Intermediation // Herbert Kitschelt // 14 Interest Groups and Pluralism // David Knoke and Xi Zhu // 15 Elections // Jeff Manza // C. Violence and States // 16 War // Antoine Bousquet // 17 Terrorism // Jeff Goodwin // 18 Globalization and Security // Didier Bigo // 19 Incarceration as a Political Institution // Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen // PART III THE POLITICAL AND THE SOCIAL // A. States
and Civil Society // 20 Culture, State and Policy // Brian Steensland and Christi M. Smith // 21 Civil Society and the Public Sphere // Larry Ray // 22 Trust and Social Capital // Arnaldo Bagnasco // 23 The Media and Politics // John B. Thompson // 95 // 107 // 120 // 130 // 144 // 158 // 168 // 180 // 190 // 204 // 214 // 229 // 240 // 252 // 263 // CONTENTS // B. The Politics of Identity and Action // 24 Imagined Communities // Alan Finlayson // 25 Gender, Power, Politics // Jonathan Dean // 26 Class, Culture and Politics // - Mike Savage // 27 The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity // Aletta J. Norval // 28 Race and Politics // John D. Skrentny and René Patnode // 29 Nationalism: Its Role and Significance in a // Globalized World // John Schwarzmantel // 30 Religion and Political Sociology // Valérie Amir aux // 31 Body Politics // Roberta Sassatelli // C. Citizenship // 32 Citizenship and Welfare: Politics and Social Policies // Sven Hort and Goran Therborn // 33 Citizenship and Gender // Ruth Lister // 34 Post-national Citizenship: Rights and Obligations // of Individuality // Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal // PART IV DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION // A. Social Movements // 35 Protest and Political Process // David S. Meyer // 36 Global Social Movements and Transnational Advocacy // Valentine M. Moghadam // 37 Global Governance and Environmental Politics // Brenda Holzinger and Gabriela Kiitting // 38 Rural Social Movements // Marc Edelman // // VII // 273 // 283 // 294 // 305
315 // 325 // 336 // 347 // 360 // 372 // 383 // 397 // 408 // 421 // 431 // viii CONTENTS // B. Structures of Participation // 39 Towards a Political Sociology of Human Rights // Kate Nash // 40 Democratization // Dietrich Rueschemeyer // 41 Feminism and Democracy // Judith Squires // 42 Democracy and Capitalism in the Wake of // the Financial Crisis // Colin Crouch // References // 444 // 454 // 466 // 478 // 491 // Index // 565