ISBN:
1280598964
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9781444330939
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9781444355062
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXIII, 611 S.)
Series Statement:
Blackwell Reference Online
Parallel Title:
Print version The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Politische Soziologie
Abstract:
TheWiley-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. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international set of scholars addressing key issues concerning globalization, social movements, and citizenshipThe majority of chapters are new, including those on environmental politics, international terrorism, security, corruption, and human rights Revises and updates all previously published chapters to include new themes and topics in
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Sociology; Title Page; Copyright; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I: APPROACHES TO POWER AND POLITICS; Chapter 1: Marxist Approaches to Power; Power as a Social Relation; General Remarks on Class Domination; Economic Class Domination; Political Class Domination; Ideological Class Domination; The Articulation of Economic, Political, and Ideological Domination; Spatio-Temporal Moments of Domination; Conclusions; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Weber and Political Sociology; Weber's Political Sociology; Weberian Political Sociology after Weber
Description / Table of Contents:
Further ReadingChapter 3: Durkheim and Durkheimian Political Sociology; Changing Views of Durkheimian Sociology; Cultural Sociology and Politics; Further Reading; Chapter 4: Foucaultian Analysis of Power, Government, Politics; Government; Politics and Government; Government and Partisan Politics; Government in the International Arena; Liberal Authoritarianism; Moving on; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Historical Institutionalism; Institutional Arguments and Historical Institutionalism; Path Dependency and Historicism; History as a Methodological Approach
Description / Table of Contents:
The Future of Historical InstitutionalismAcknowledgement; Further Reading; Chapter 6: Sociological Institutionalism and World Society; Introduction; Myths and Misperceptions; New Directions in World Society Theory; Concluding Thoughts; Acknowledgement; Further Reading; Chapter 7: Studying Power; Images and Decisions; Structures of Power; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Comparative Political Analysis: Six Case-Oriented Strategies; Context; Connecting Conditions and Outcomes: The Limitations of Correlation; Connecting Conditions and Outcomes: The Case-oriented Template
Description / Table of Contents:
Six Strategies of Case-oriented Comparative AnalysisConclusion; Further Reading; PART II: STATES AND GOVERNANCE; Chapter 9: Theories of State Formation; Why Deal with These Matters?; The Managerial Perspective; The Military Perspective; The Economic Perspective; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter 10: State; State Origins and Contemporary Relevance; Beyond Europe: Diverse State Activity and Varieties of State Research; Weber's Endurance; Conclusion; Further Reading; Chapter 11: Political Legitimacy; Further Reading; Chapter 12: Political Corruption; What Is Corruption?
Description / Table of Contents:
Approaches to CorruptionCorruption in Complex Exchanges; Institutions of Bribery: Governance Mechanisms; Conclusion: Systemic Corruption; Further Reading; Chapter 13: Parties and Interest Intermediation; Programmatic or Non-Programmatic Parties; The Nature of Programmatic Divisions; Party Competition; Party Organization; Controversies about Parties in Postindustrial Democracy; Further Reading; Chapter 14: Interest Groups and Pluralism; Interest Groups Defined; Recent Research; Policy Networks; Future Directions; Further Reading; Chapter 15: Elections; Why Elections?
Description / Table of Contents:
Social Forces and Elections
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
