The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, 2v

I recently published books on Social Theory (Profile 2015), Europe Since 1989 (Routledge 2016) and Contemporary Europe (Routledge 2017), and an edited book on Brexit (Anthem 2017).
Stephen Turner is Graduate Research Professor. His Ph.D. is from the University of Missouri. His dissertation, Sociological Explanation as Translation , was published in 1980 by Cambridge . He is the author of a number of books in the history and philosophy of social science and statistics, including books on Max Weber, on whom he also edited the Cambridge Companion volume. He is the co-author of the standard one-volume history of American Sociology, The Impossible Science. He has also written extensively in science studies, especially on patronage and the politics and economics of science, and on the concept of practices, including two books, The Social Theory of Practices and Brains//Practices/ Relativism . His Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts, reflects his interest in the problem the political significance of science. Among his other current interests are problems of explaining normativity, especially the conflict between philosophical and social scientific accounts, and issues relating to the implications of cognitive neuroscience for social theory, especially related to the problem of tacit knowledge and mirror neurons. He is also engaged in a large project on the realism of Hans Kelsen and Max Weber and its relevance for contemporary discussions of political theory and law. His most recent book, Explaining the Normative (Polity 2010) is a critique and an alternative to the accounts of "normativity" one finds in philosophers like McDowell, Brandom, Korsgaard, Nagel, and the like. Among his other recent edited books are The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology, with William Outhwaite, and The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, with Gerard Delanty. He has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. 

The two volumes are structured around five key areas:

PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS
PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS
PART 04: TOPICS
PART 05: WORLD REGIONS

This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.

A comprehensive handbook that attempts to cover the whole field of topics that a reader interested primarily in politics needs to understand as well as providing essential conceptual and empirical background to the social study of politics.

Introduction - William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner
PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1: Classical approaches: Origins and development of the theory of politics - Bryan S. Turner
Chapter 2: Historical Political Sociology - Yves Déloye
Chapter 3a: Marx and Marxism up to The Second World War - Robert John Bideleux
Chapter 3b: Marxism Since 1945: The Post-1940s Decline In Marxism's Appeal As An Ideology Of Mass Movements And Regimes - Robert John Bideleux
Chapter 4: Elite theory and 'democratic elitism' - Sandro Segre
Chapter 5: Class and Politics - Geoff Evans and Noah Carl
Chapter 6: Foucault and Political Sociology - Claire Blencowe
Chapter 7: Gender and Political Sociology - Celia Valiente
Chapter 8: Postcolonial Theory - Lucy Mayblin
Chapter 9: International Relations and Political Sociology - Álvaro Morcillo Laiz and Salvador Mateos
Chapter 10: Political Anthropology - Arpad Szakolczai and Agnes Horvath
Chapter 11: Law and Political Sociology - Chris Thornhill
Chapter 12: International Political Economy - Kevan Harris and Christiana Parreira
Chapter 13: Rational Choice - Andreas Tutic and Ulf Liebe
Chapter 14: Political Sociology and Political Theory - Rob Stones
PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS
Chapter 15: Power - Jonathan Hearn
Chapter 16: Governmentality - Iver B. Neumann and Scott Hamilton
Chapter 17: Institutions - Peter Lista and Fabio Rojas
Chapter 18: The Political Sociology and Geography of Borders - Alexander C Diener and Joshua Hagen
Chapter 19: Globalization - Larry Ray
Chapter 20: The State - Alan Scott
Chapter 21: Weak States - Luz Marina Arias and Luis De la Calle
Chapter 22: Civil Society: History, Concepts and Current Developments - Frank Adloff
Chapter 23: Citizenship: T.H. Marshall and Beyond - Peter Kivisto
Chapter 24: Political Culture - Stephen Welch
Chapter 25: The Concept of Empire - Russell David Foster
Chapter 26: Empires as a Political Form - Richard Lachmann
PART 3: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS
Chapter 27: Ideology - Jonathan Leader Maynard
Chapter 28: Neo-liberalism and the Study of "Isms" - Stephanie L. Mudge
Chapter 29: Socialism, Social Democracy, Communism - Gerassimos Moschonas
Chapter 30: Fascism - Roger Griffin and Constantin Iordachi
Chapter 31: Populism - Carlos de la Torre
Chapter 32: Nationalism - Steven Grosby
Chapter 33: Federalism - David Spence
Chapter 34: Democracy and Democratization: Theory and Research - Paul Blokker
Chapter 35: Causal Models of Democratization - Carles Boix and Michael K. Miller
Chapter 36: Asian Model of Democracy - Chua Beng Huat
Chapter 37: Islamism, Political Islam - Charles Turner
PART 4: TOPICS
Chapter 38: Revolution - Liah Greenfeld
Chapter 39: State Power and Crime - Matias Dewey
Chapter 40: War - Christian Olsson and Sinisa Malesevic
Chapter 41: Genocide - Dustin Garlitz
Chapter 42: Clientelism - Ezequiel González-Ocantos and Paula Muñoz
Chapter 43: Experts and Science and Politics - Alexander Ruser
Chapter 44: Social Media and Politics - Andrea Calderaro
Chapter 45: Political Socialization and Child Development - Michael McDevitt
Chapter 46: Resistance - Davita Silfen Glasberg and Deric Shannon
Chapter 47: Social Movements - Hadi Khoshneviss and Robert D. Benford
Chapter 48: Migration - June Edmunds
Chapter 49: Race - Alana Lentin
Chapter 50: Terrorism - Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca Rodriguez
Chapter 51: Transitional Justice - Roman David
Chapter 52: Post-Communism - Li Bennich-Björkman
Chapter 53: Public Policy Formation and Implementation - John McLevey and Ryan Deschamps
Chapter 54: Welfare State - Filipe Carreira da Silva
Chapter 55: Religion and Politics - Paul A. Djupe
Chapter 56: Paradoxes of Diversity - William Peter Baehr and Daniel Gordon
Chapter 57: Corporate Power in the 21st Century - Steven Panageotou
Chapter 58: Political Violence in Historical Perspective - James J. Chriss
Chapter 59: Military sociology - Helena Carreiras
Chapter 60: The Politics of Memory - Anselma Gallinat
PART 5: WORLD REGIONS
Chapter 61: World-System - Dmytro Khutkyy and Christopher Chase-Dunn
Chapter 62: European Integration - Didier Georgakakis
Chapter 63: Politics in African States - Klaus Schlichte
Chapter 64: Minority Rights and Democracy in India - Peter deSouza
Chapter 65: China: Ancien, Régime, Revolution and After - Chih-Chieh Tang, Feng-Tsan Lin and Hung-Chang Wu
Chapter 66: The 'Middle East' - Helen Mary Rizzo
Chapter 67: Europe in a New World Context - Gerard Delanty