The Wiley-Blackwell companion to political sociology / / edited by Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, and Alan Scott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819033703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• ISBN: 1-4443-5509-0; 1-78268-703-3; 1-4443-5506-6; 1-280-59896-4; 1-118-38474-1; 9786613628794; 1-4443-5507-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (739 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to sociology
• Classificazione: MS 4350
• Altri autori (Persone): AmentaEdwin <1957->; NashKate <1958->; ScottAlan <1956->
• Disciplina: 306.2
• Soggetti: Political sociology; Political science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""; ""Further Reading""; ""Chapter 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""; ""The Future of Historical Institutionalism""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""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""; ""Six Strategies of Case-oriented Comparative Analysis""; ""Conclusion""; ""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?""; ""Approaches to Corruption""; ""Corruption 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""