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This Handbook of Political Sociology provides the first complete
survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores
the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the
formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III
takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures
from civil society, including welfare, gender, and military
policies. And Part IV examines globalization. The Handbook is
dedicated to the memory of co-author Robert Alford.
This Handbook of Political Sociology provides the first complete
survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores
the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the
formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III
takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures
from civil society, including welfare, gender, and military
policies. And Part IV examines globalization. The Handbook is
dedicated to the memory of co-author Robert Alford.
Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist
democracies have been mostly propounded from one of three major
theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a particular aspect of
the state: the 'pluralist', which emphasises its democratic aspect:
the 'managerial', which emphasises its bureaucratic elements: and
the 'class', which focuses on its capitalistic aspect. Each of
these theoretical perspectives has contributed something to our
understanding of the state, but each also has its limitations. In
this book, Alford and Friedland evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of each perspective and present a new, synthetic
framework for a more comprehensive theory of the state. Impartially
reviewing the major historical and empirical works within each
theoretical tradition, they reveal how empirical study has been
shaped by theoretical assumptions. They agree that each perspective
has a distinctive 'power' to understand part of the reality of the
modern state, although it is powerless to explain other parts. In
each case, the part that can be explained is the perspective's
'home domain', or the aspect of the state that it emphasises, while
other aspects are either rejected or reinterpreted. The authors
argue that the state cannot be adequately understood unless full
account is taken of each of these home domains, and they suggest
how the contributions of each perspective to the explanation of its
own domain can be integrated into a new, and more powerful, theory.
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