RALPH SCHROEDER is Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture and Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology.

• Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Concept of Democracy in Weber's Political Sociology; S.Breuer Democratization in World-Historical Perspective; R.Collins State Formation and the Disciplined Individual in Weber's Historical Sociology; R.Axtmann Max Weber and Plebiscitary Democracy; S.Eliaeson The Nation-state, the Protestant Ethic, and Modernization; S.Whimster From Weber's Political Sociology to Contemporary Liberal Democracy; R.Schroeder Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy; S.Kalberg Max Weber and European Integration; C.Levy Back to 'Mitteleuropa'? Weber, Germany, and Contemporary Central Europe; Z.Krasnodebski Soviet Communism and Weberian Sociology; S.Breuer Western Impact and Asian Values in Japan's Modernization; A Weberian Critique; W.Schwentker Reframing Orientalism: Weber and Islam; M.Nafissi Index

RALPH SCHROEDER is Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture and Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology.

• Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Concept of Democracy in Weber's Political Sociology; S.Breuer Democratization in World-Historical Perspective; R.Collins State Formation and the Disciplined Individual in Weber's Historical Sociology; R.Axtmann Max Weber and Plebiscitary Democracy; S.Eliaeson The Nation-state, the Protestant Ethic, and Modernization; S.Whimster From Weber's Political Sociology to Contemporary Liberal Democracy; R.Schroeder Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy; S.Kalberg Max Weber and European Integration; C.Levy Back to 'Mitteleuropa'? Weber, Germany, and Contemporary Central Europe; Z.Krasnodebski Soviet Communism and Weberian Sociology; S.Breuer Western Impact and Asian Values in Japan's Modernization; A Weberian Critique; W.Schwentker Reframing Orientalism: Weber and Islam; M.Nafissi Index

RALPH SCHROEDER is Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture and Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology.

• Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Concept of Democracy in Weber's Political Sociology; S.Breuer Democratization in World-Historical Perspective; R.Collins State Formation and the Disciplined Individual in Weber's Historical Sociology; R.Axtmann Max Weber and Plebiscitary Democracy; S.Eliaeson The Nation-state, the Protestant Ethic, and Modernization; S.Whimster From Weber's Political Sociology to Contemporary Liberal Democracy; R.Schroeder Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy; S.Kalberg Max Weber and European Integration; C.Levy Back to 'Mitteleuropa'? Weber, Germany, and Contemporary Central Europe; Z.Krasnodebski Soviet Communism and Weberian Sociology; S.Breuer Western Impact and Asian Values in Japan's Modernization; A Weberian Critique; W.Schwentker Reframing Orientalism: Weber and Islam; M.Nafissi Index