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Readings in Political Sociology

Anderson, Benedict. 1991 [1983]. Imagined Communities. London: Verso Press.

Anderson, Perry. 1974. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso.

Anzaldua, Gloria. 1987. Borderlands | La Frontera: the New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

Arendt, Hannah. 1958. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Barber, Benjamin R. 1984. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Barber, Benjamin R. 1995. Jihad Vs. McWorld. New York: Times Books.

Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Stephen M. Tipton. 1985. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Committment in American Life. New York: Harper and Row.

Braverman, Harry. 1974. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Brown, Wendy. 1988. Manhood and Politics: a Feminist Reading in Political Theory. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield.

Burawoy, Micahel. 1982. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.

Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". New York: Routledge.

Cohen, Joshua and Joel Rogers. 1995. Associations and Democracy, Edited by E. O. Wright. London: Verso.

Davis, Mike. 1990. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books.

Davis, Mike. 1998. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Dewey, John. 1927. The Public and its Problems. Chicago: Swallow Press.

Domhoff, G. William. 1990. The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Domhoff, G. William. 1996. State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Eliasoph, Nina. 1998. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Finegold, Kenneth and Theda Skocpol. 1995. State and Party in America's New deal. Madison: Univeristy of Wisconsin Press.

Fraser, Nancy. 1997. Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the 'Postsocialist' Condition. London: Routledge.

Gamson, William. 1992. Talking Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Giddens, Anthony. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Cambridge: Polity.

Giddens, Anthony. 1985. The Nation-State and Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Gorski, Phillip S. 1993. “The Protestant Ethic Revisited: Disciplinary Revolution and State Formation in Holland and Prussia.” American Journal of Sociology 99:265-316.

Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Harvey, David. 1996. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Kymlicka, Will. 1995. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford: Clarenden Press.

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. 1985. Hegemony and socialist strategy : towards a radical democratic politics. Translated by Winston Moore and Paul Cammack. London: Verso.

Lefebvre, Georges. 1947/1989. The Coming of the French Revolution. Translated by R. R. Palmer. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lichterman, Paul. 1996. The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Logan, John R. and Harvey L. Molotch. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The political economy of space. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Malkki, Liisa. 1995. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency 1930-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mills, C. Wright. 1956. The Power Elite. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mukerji, Chandra. 1997. Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

O'Connor, James. 1973. The Fiscal Crisis of the State. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 1977. Poor People's Movements: Why they Succeed, How they Fail. New York: Vintage Books.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 1988. Why Americans Don't Vote. New York: Pantheon Books.

Putnam, Robert. 1995. “Bowling Alone: America's declining social capital.” Journal of Democracy 6:65-78.

Sewell, William H., JR. 1980. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: a Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1992. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Skowronek, Stephen. 1982. Building a New American State; the Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tilly, Charles. 1990. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. “The Rise and Future Demise of the Capitalist World System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 16:387-415.

Young, Iris Marion. 1990. Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Zald, Mayer and John D. McCarthy. 1979. “The Dynamics of Social Movements: Resource Mobilization, Social Control, and Tactics.” . Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers.