Theory & Political Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

   By William Smith

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. This book explores the...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform

   Lessons from Brazil

   By George Meszaros

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe

   Edited by Gauthier de Beco

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The book studies the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe. It provides an in-depth examination of six such mechanisms: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), the...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Making Culture, Changing Society

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: CRESC

   Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Atoms, Bytes and Genes

   Public Resistance and Socio-Technical Responses

   By Martin Bauer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book demonstrates the varied contributions of public resistance to technological developments. Bauer compares public resistance to three strategic technologies over the last fifty years (nuclear power, information technology, and genetic engineering), and shows how resistance contributes to...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Solidarity in Individualized Societies

   Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement

   By Søren Juul

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In today’s individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion. So what kind of solidarity can achieve this? Engaging with recent thought in...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa

   Five Decades of Misrule

   Edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Re-reading Foucault

   On Law, Power and Rights

   Edited by Ben Golder

   Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for law. Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century’s ‘theory’ academics. His work continues to animate a range of different...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Political Violence, Crises and Revolutions (Routledge Revivals)

   Theories and Research

   By Ekkart Zimmermann

   First published in 1983, this extraordinary study provides a comprehensive systematic evaluation of cross-national theorizing and quantitative empirical evidence on four interrelated phenomena: Political violence Crises Military Coups D’ État Revolutions. Findings from...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

    By John Urry

    First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution. Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it...

    Published October 14th 2012 by Routledge