Political Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe

   Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development

   By Sebastian M. Büttner

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
2. Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States

   By Tanya Golash-Boza

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describes the consequences of this lack of due process through the stories of deportees and detainees....

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Social after Gabriel Tarde

   Debates and Assessments

   Edited by Matei Candea

   Series: CRESC

   The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ‘everything is a society and every science a sociology’. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. The International Social Survey Programme 1984-2009

   Charting the Globe

   Edited by Max Haller, Roger Jowell, Tom W Smith

   Series: Social Research Today

   The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations. The International Social Survey Programme has played a pioneering role in creating and sustaining methodologically-sophisticated mass...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Social Economy

   Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era

   By Hasmet M. Uluorta

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy. The author of this original volume, Hasmet M. Uluorta, contends that the crisis in the global...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Alternative Globalizations

   An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement

   By S. A. Hamed Hosseini

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Are the growing oppositions to neoliberal market globalism (especially in the aftermath of global economic meltdown) able to develop meaningful alternative ideologies? Is there any substantial alternative to the world capitalist system on the horizon? How would the ideologies and ideas address the...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. Social Media and Democracy

   Innovations in Participatory Politics

   Edited by Brian D Loader, Dan Mercea

   Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication

   This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement. Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education

   By Steven C. Ward

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world....

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization

   Historical, Political and Theoretical Approaches to State Formation

   By Tariq Amin-Khan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studied, while a coherent grasp of the post-colonial state has remained elusive. Amin-Khan provides a critical historical and contemporary understanding of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. A Micro-Sociology of Violence

    Deciphering patterns and dynamics of collective violence

    Edited by Jutta Bakonyi, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

    This book aims at a deeper understanding of social processes, dynamics and institutions shaping collective violence. It argues that violence is a social practice that adheres to social logics and, in its collective form, appears as recurrent patterns. In search of characteristics, mechanisms and...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge