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  title info:
    title: Politics and public policy
  name:
    name part: Prechel, Harland N.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Bingley, UK
    publisher: Emerald JAI
    date issued: c2008
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 206 p.) : ill.
  abstract: This volume of "Research in Political Sociology" focuses on one of the central themes in political sociology: the relationship between political power and the policy formation process. The first section examines the exercise of power in two distinct policy arenas: the interlocking networks among policy-planning organizations, and the effects of PACs on the voting behavior of elected officials in Canada and the U.S. In contrast to corporate interlocking directorates, although a shift to the right occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, board interlocks of policy-planning organizations are relatively stable over time. The second article shows that PACs affect voting behavior of U.S. elected officials, but they have little influence on voting in Canada's House of Commons. This suggests that the structure of the state affects the capacity of elites to exercise power over it.The second section examines the capacity of theories in economic sociology to explain the social organization of capitalism. The authors move beyond the current institutional frameworks by elaborating how the generic tendencies and contradictions of capitalism generate political conflicts and outcomes. This framework also stresses how organizational and institutional structures, class conflict, logics of action, and the contradictions of capitalism shape and limit the options that are available to social actors. The articles in the third section examine the effects of labor and community based political strategies on policy outcomes. These articles identify the contingent basis of political behavior and show how social structures and historical conditions create both opportunities for and limitations on the exercise power.Whereas the legal structure of labor relations in the U.S. limited the capacity of workers to mobilize, the flexibility of community-based coalitions increased their capacity to form coalitions to mobilize politically. Together, the articles in this volume show that political struggles are…
  note: edited by Harland Prechel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Political sociology
  subject:
    topic: Political planning
  subject:
    topic: Central government policies
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  classification: JK31 .P65 2008
  classification: 320.6
  classification: 32
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Politics and public policy
    origin info:
      publisher: Bingley : Emerald JAI, 2008
    identifier: (OCoLC)298302033
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research in political sociology ; v. 17
  identifier: 9781848551794 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: 1848551797 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: 9781848551787 (hbk.)
  identifier: 1848551789 (hbk.)
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0895-9935/17
  record info:
    record content source: OSU
    record creation date: 100115
    record change date: 20100917015550.0
    record identifier: ocn499168787
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng