The New Handbook of Political Sociology

A guide to political sociology: its theories, the media, the state, parties, civil society, citizenship, and politics under globalization.

Thomas Janoski (Edited by), Cedric de Leon (Edited by), Joya Misra (Edited by), Isaac William Martin (Edited by)

9781107193499, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 March 2020

1142 pages, 14 b/w illus. 8 tables
23.4 x 15.6 x 5.7 cm, 1.84 kg

'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

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Sociology [JHB], Globalization [JFFS]