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Online-Ressource (XXIII, 611 S.)
ISBN:
1280598964
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9781444330939
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9781444355062
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Blackwell Reference Online
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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
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Description based upon print version of record
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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Social Forces and Elections
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781280598968
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280598794
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Politische Soziologie
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