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• Dedication; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Theories of Political Sociology: 1. Rulemaking, rulebreaking and power Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Crawford; 2. Neo-pluralism and neo-functionalism in political sociology Alexander M. Hicks and Frank J. Lechner; 3. Conflict theories in political sociology Axel van den Berg and Thomas Janoski; 4. Institutionalist and state-centric theories of political sociology Edwin Amenta; 5. Culture, knowledge, politics James Jasper; 6. Feminist theorizing and feminisms in political sociology Barbara Hobson; 7. The linguistic turn: Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek Jacob Torfing; 8. Rational-choice theories in political sociology Edgar Kiser and Shawn Bauldry; 9. Theories of race and the state David R. James and Kent Redding; Part II. Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action: 10. Money, participation and votes: social cleavages and electoral politics Jeffrey Manza, Clem Brooks and Michael Sauder; 11. Public opinion, political attitudes and ideology David Weakliem; 12. Nationalism in comparative perspective Liah Greenfield; 13. Political parties: social bases, organization and environment Mildred A. Schwartz and Kay Lawson; 14. Organized interest groups and policy networks Francisco J. Granados and David Knoke; 15. Corporate control, interfirm relations and corporate power Mark Mizruchi and Deborah M. Bey; 16. Social movement organizations and strategies J. Craig Jenkins and William Form; 17. Towards a political sociology of the news media Michael Schudson and Silvio Waisbord; Part III. The State and its Manifestations: 18. State formation and state-building in Europe Thomas Ertman; 19. Transitions to democracy John Markoff; 20. Explaining the occurrences and consequences of social revolutions Jeff Goodwin; 21. Regimes and contention Charles Tilly; 22. Theories and practices of new-corporatism Wolfgang Streeck and Lane Kentworthy; 23. Undemocratic politics in the twentieth century and beyond Viviane Brachet-Marquez; 24. Civil bureaucracies in politics and implementing policies Oskar Ozlak; Part IV. State Policy and Innovations: 25. Comparative and historical studies of social policy and the welfare state Alexander M. Hicks and Gøsta Esping-Andersen; 26. Women, gender, and state policies Joya Misra and Leslie King; 27. The politics of racial policy Kent Redding, David R. James and Joshua Klugman; 28. War, militarism and states: insights and blindspots of political sociology Gregory Hooks and James Rice; Part V. Globalization and Political Sociology: 29. State economic and social policy in global capitalism Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens; 30. Globalization Philip McMichael; 31. The politics of immigration and national integration Thomas Janoski and Fengjan Wang; 32. Counter-hegemonic globalization: transnational social movements in the contemporary global political economy Peter Evans; References; Index.