Political power and social theory

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Go, Julian, 1970-
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
• Σειρά: Political power and social theory, v. 23
• Θέματα: Political Science > Political Process > General.; Political Science > Public Policy > Social Policy.; Political science & theory.; Society & culture: general.; Power (Social sciences); Political sociology.; Social sciences > Philosophy.

As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obamas campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues. Chapters...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Free riding on revolution : conservatism and social change / Robin Archer
• Parties and the articulation of neoliberalism : from "the emergency" to reforms in India, 1975-1991 / Manali Desai
• "A new health order as part of the new social order" : the strategic response of the WHO to its member states / Nitsan Chorev
• The reconfiguration of the Palestinian national question : the indirect rule route and the civil society route / Silvia Pasquetti
• Transforming citizenship : the subjective consequences of local political mobilization / Rachel Meyer
• Political fields and religious movements : the exclusion of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan / Sadia Saeed
• Racialized class formation : blacks in the professional middle class in the post-civil rights era / Eric S. Brown
• Varieties of what? : should we still be using the concept of capitalism? / Fred Block
• A Polanyian analysis of capitalism : a commentary on Fred Block / Nina Bandelj
• Marx, Weber, and the "ceaseless accumulation of capital" / Ho-Fung Hung
• On Fred Block, varieties of what? : should we still be using the concept of capitalism? / Wolfgang Streeck
• There was no baby in this bathwater : a reply to the critics / Fred Block.