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The New Handbook of Political Sociology

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Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, Isaac William Martin, Andrew Clarno, Harland Prechel, Linzi Berkowitz, Caleb Scoville, Neil Fligstein, Mabel Berezin, Thomas Davidson, Emily M. Sandusky, Julian Go, Barbara Hobson, Jeff Hearn, Joe Feagin, Sean Elias, John Levi Martin, Nick Judd, Michael Schudson, Gal Beckerman, Rebecca Emigh, Dylan Riley, Patricia Ahmed, Craig Jenkins, Stephanie Mudge, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Josh Pacewicz, Elisabeth Clemens, Wan-Zi Lu, Richard Lachmann, Isaac Martin, Jochaim J. Salvesberg, Amber Joy Powell, Kathleen Fallon, Jessica Kim, Colin Beck, Sara Compion, James Jasper, Johnnie Lotesta, Manali Desai, Rashmi Singh, Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini, Paul Burstein, Leah Greenfeld , Wu Zeying, John Campbell, Stephanie Moller, TengTeng Cai, Joya Misra, Mary Bernstein, Irene Bloemraad, Rebecca Hamlin, Mark Frezzo, Gregory Hooks, Sakin Erin, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Michael Dreiling, Moon-Kie Jung, Yaejoon Kwon, Carlos de la Torre, Peter Evans
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  • Date Published: April 2020
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781107193499

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  • Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: theories of political sociology, the information and knowledge explosion, the state and political parties, civil society and citizenship, the varieties of state policies, and globalization and how it affects politics. Covering all subareas of the field with both theoretical orientations and empirical studies, it directly connects scholars with current research in the field. A total reconceptualization of the first edition, the new handbook features nine additional chapters and highlights the impact of the media and big data.

    • Covers all the subareas of political sociology with both theoretical orientations and a strong basis in empirical studies of many topics
    • Connects scholars with actual research being done on the subareas of sociology so that theory and research can be assessed together rather than simply relying on theory or critical endeavors
    • Focuses strongly on the new impact of political parties through articulation theories, showing the refocusing of political sociology on how political parties shape public opinion and the demands of various groups in society
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    ‘Readers who want to grasp vital contemporary issues of white supremacy; colonialism and empire; war and prisons; populism and xenophobia; and the intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, sexuality, and class that structure the limits and possibilities of social and political change and power will find this volume especially rewarding.’ L. D. Brush, Choice

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    • Date Published: April 2020
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781107193499
    • length: 1142 pages
    • dimensions: 234 x 156 x 57 mm
    • weight: 1.84kg
    • contains: 14 b/w illus. 8 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction. New directions in political sociology
    Part I. Theories of Political Sociology:
    1. Power
    2. Class, elite and conflict theories
    3. The promise of field theory for the study of political institutions
    4. Culture in politics and politics in culture: institutions, practices and boundaries
    5. Political sociology and the post-colonial perspective
    6. Gender, state, and citizenship: challenges and dilemmas in feminist theorizing
    7. Theories of race, ethnicity, and the racial state
    8. The convergence of culture and political economy? Bourdieu, Mann and institutional theory
    9. Tasks of political sociology in the next ten years
    Part II. Media Explosion, Knowledge as Power, and Demographic Reversals:
    10. 'Old' media, 'New' media, hybrid media, and the changing character of political participation
    11. Information gathering, quantification, influence, reactivity and power
    12. The light and dark sides of big data, web scraping and data harmonization
    13. States, politics, and expertise
    14. Towards a political sociology of demography
    Part III. The State and its Political Organizations:
    15. The political economy of the capitalist state
    16. States as institutions
    17. Nation-state formation: power and culture
    18. The political sociology of public finance and the fiscal sociology of politics
    19. Politics, institutions and the carceral state
    20. State transitions to democracy
    21. Revolutions against the state
    Part IV. Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action:
    22. The challenges of citizenship in civil society
    23. Social movements
    24. Political parties: from reflection to articulation and beyond
    25. Machine politics and clientelism
    26. The good, the bland and the ugly: volunteering and civic associations in political sociology
    27. The politics of economic crisis: from voter retreat to the rise of new populisms
    28. Public opinion and its impact on politics, voting and civil society
    29. On the move: nationalism between left and right, and spreading into China
    Part V. Established and New State Policies and Innovations:
    30. The evolution of fiscal and monetary policy
    31. Welfare state policies and their effects
    32. Sexuality, gender, and social policy
    33. Immigration, asylum, integration and citizenship policy
    34. Cosmopolitanism and political sociology: world citizenship, global governance, and human rights
    35. War, terrorism and securitization while preserving democratic rights
    Part VI. Globalization and New and Bigger Sources of Power and Resistance:
    36. Global political sociology and world-systems
    37. Liberalizing trade and finance: corporate class agency and the neoliberal era
    38. The racial state in and beyond the age of racial formation theory
    39. Democracy and autocracy in the age of populism
    40. Transnational movements.

  • Editors

    Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky
    Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional and Social Democratic Regimes (Cambridge, 1998) and The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries (Cambridge, 2010). He has also co-edited The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State (with Alexander M. Hicks, Cambridge, 1994) and The Handbook of Political Sociology (with Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks and Mildred A. Schwartz, Cambridge, 2005).

    Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago (2015) and Party and Society: Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics (2013). He is also co-editor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society (with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal, 2015).

    Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the former editor of Gender and Society, and co-editor of Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings: A Feminist Anthology (with Mahala Dyer Stewart and Marni Alyson Brown, 2017).

    Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego
    Isaac William Martin is Professor of Sociology and Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books and articles on social movements and public policy, including Rich People's Movements (2013) and The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008). He is the co-editor of The New Fiscal Sociology (with Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad, Cambridge, 2009).

    Contributors

    Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, Isaac William Martin, Andrew Clarno, Harland Prechel, Linzi Berkowitz, Caleb Scoville, Neil Fligstein, Mabel Berezin, Thomas Davidson, Emily M. Sandusky, Julian Go, Barbara Hobson, Jeff Hearn, Joe Feagin, Sean Elias, John Levi Martin, Nick Judd, Michael Schudson, Gal Beckerman, Rebecca Emigh, Dylan Riley, Patricia Ahmed, Craig Jenkins, Stephanie Mudge, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Josh Pacewicz, Elisabeth Clemens, Wan-Zi Lu, Richard Lachmann, Isaac Martin, Jochaim J. Salvesberg, Amber Joy Powell, Kathleen Fallon, Jessica Kim, Colin Beck, Sara Compion, James Jasper, Johnnie Lotesta, Manali Desai, Rashmi Singh, Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini, Paul Burstein, Leah Greenfeld , Wu Zeying, John Campbell, Stephanie Moller, TengTeng Cai, Joya Misra, Mary Bernstein, Irene Bloemraad, Rebecca Hamlin, Mark Frezzo, Gregory Hooks, Sakin Erin, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Michael Dreiling, Moon-Kie Jung, Yaejoon Kwon, Carlos de la Torre, Peter Evans

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