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1. The Social Democratic Image of Society (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study of the Achievements and Origins of Scandinavian Social Democracy in Comparative Perspective

   By Francis Castles

   This book, originally published in 1978, constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democraic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The measure of achievement is not merely political success, the fact that in Scandinavia...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
2. Pressure Groups and Political Culture (Routledge Revivals)

   A Comparative Study

   By Francis Castles

   This volume, first published in 1967, offers a new approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised in recent years. Francis Castles seeks to throw light on this topic, firstly by examining the theoretical approaches to...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
3. Politics and Social Insight (Routledge Revivals)

   By Francis Castles

   First published in 1971, this is a clear, straightforward introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly sociological theory, for the understanding of political life. The topics covered include sociology and the discipline of politics, the elementary forms of...

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge