The New Handbook of Political Sociology

Description

Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: theories of political sociology, the information and knowledge explosion, the state and political parties, civil society and citizenship, the varieties of state policies, and globalization and how it affects politics. Covering all subareas of the field with both theoretical orientations and empirical studies, it directly connects scholars with current research in the field. A total reconceptualization of the first edition, the new handbook features nine additional chapters and highlights the impact of the media and big data.

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