The Blackwell companion to political sociology / edited by Kate Nash and Alan Scott.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [418]-461) and index.

Introduction / Kate Nash, Alan Scott -- Developments in Marxist theory / Bob Jessup -- Developments in pluralist and elite approaches / Richard Bellamy -- Rational choice approaches to analyzing power / Keith Dowding -- Power, government, politics / Barry Hindess -- Society, morality, and law : Jürgen Habermas / Max Pensky -- Political sociology for complex societies : Niklas Luhmann / Stefan Lange, Uwe Schimank -- "Postmodern" political sociology / David Owen -- Studying power / John Scott -- Theories of state formation / Gianfranco Poggi -- Political legitimacy / David Beetham -- Gender and the state / R.W. Connell -- Administration, civil service, and bureaucracy / Antonino Palumbo -- Policy networks / Peter John -- Parties and political intermediation / Herbert Kitschelt -- Protest and political process / David S. Meyer -- Media and politics / John B. Thompson -- Political sociology of war / Alan Scott -- Revolution / Michael Drake -- Terror against the state / Donatella della Porta -- Civil society and the public sphere / Larry Ray -- Trust and social capital / Arnaldo Bagnasco -- Markets and states / Colin Crouch -- Markets against states : neo-liberalism / Fran Tonkiss -- Beyond new social movements : social conflicts and institutions / Pierre Hamel, Louis Maheu -- Politics of ethnicity and identity / Aletta J. Norval -- Imagined communities / Alan Finlayson -- Political rituals / Sigrid Baringhorst -- Politics of popular culture / John Street -- Body politics / Roberta Sassatelli -- Citizenship and gender / Ruth Lister -- Postnational citizenship : reconfiguring the familiar terrain / Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal -- Governmentality and citizenship / Giovanna Procacci -- Transformation, transition, consolidation : democratization in Latin America / Joe Foweraker -- Feminism and democracy / Judith Squires -- Postmodernization / Jan Pakulski -- Nationalism and fragmentation since 1989 / John Schwarzmantel -- New phase of the state story in Europe / Patrick Le Galès -- "Singapore model" : democracy, communication, and globalization / Danilo Zolo.