This is an up-to-date textbook which takes fully into account recent developments in political sociology. Taking as its starting point the fragmentation of the discipline, it covers a wide range of new issues and debates as well as the more traditional concerns of the subject.
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ROGER KING was Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln and recently he has been a Visiting Professor at both Queensland University of Technology and the University of the Sunshine Coast, in Australia.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Behaviouralism and the Sociology of Democracy
The Development of the Modern Nation State
Interpretations of the Development of the Modern State
Liberalism, Collectivism and State Socialism
Corporatism Power
Urban Politics
The State in an International Context; G.Gibbs
Postscript: The State and the New Cold War
Bibliography
Index.