Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional and Social Democratic Regimes (Cambridge, 1998) and The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries (Cambridge, 2010). He has also co-edited The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State (with Alexander M. Hicks, Cambridge, 1994) and The Handbook of Political Sociology (with Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks and Mildred A. Schwartz, Cambridge, 2005). Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago (2015) and Party and Society: Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics (2013). He is also co-editor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society (with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal, 2015). Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the former editor of Gender and Society, and co-editor of Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings: A Feminist Anthology (with Mahala Dyer Stewart and Marni Alyson Brown, 2017). Isaac William Martin is Professor of Sociology and Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books and articles on social movements and public policy, including Rich People's Movements (2013) and The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008). He is the co-editor of The New Fiscal Sociology (with Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad, Cambridge, 2009).

'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

• 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.

Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional and Social Democratic Regimes (Cambridge, 1998) and The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries (Cambridge, 2010). He has also co-edited The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State (with Alexander M. Hicks, Cambridge, 1994) and The Handbook of Political Sociology (with Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks and Mildred A. Schwartz, Cambridge, 2005). Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago (2015) and Party and Society: Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics (2013). He is also co-editor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society (with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal, 2015). Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the former editor of Gender and Society, and co-editor of Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings: A Feminist Anthology (with Mahala Dyer Stewart and Marni Alyson Brown, 2017). Isaac William Martin is Professor of Sociology and Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books and articles on social movements and public policy, including Rich People's Movements (2013) and The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008). He is the co-editor of The New Fiscal Sociology (with Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad, Cambridge, 2009).

'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

• 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.

Thomas Janoski is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional and Social Democratic Regimes (Cambridge, 1998) and The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries (Cambridge, 2010). He has also co-edited The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State (with Alexander M. Hicks, Cambridge, 1994) and The Handbook of Political Sociology (with Robert R. Alford, Alexander M. Hicks and Mildred A. Schwartz, Cambridge, 2005). Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago (2015) and Party and Society: Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics (2013). He is also co-editor of Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society (with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal, 2015). Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the former editor of Gender and Society, and co-editor of Gendered Lives, Sexual Beings: A Feminist Anthology (with Mahala Dyer Stewart and Marni Alyson Brown, 2017). Isaac William Martin is Professor of Sociology and Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books and articles on social movements and public policy, including Rich People's Movements (2013) and The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008). He is the co-editor of The New Fiscal Sociology (with Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad, Cambridge, 2009).

'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

• 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.