Product Description: This book is devoted to the work of Robert A. Dahl, who passed away in 2014. Dahl was one of the most important American political scientists and normative democratic theorists of the post-war era, and he was also an influential teacher who mentored some of the most significant academics of the next two generations of American political science...read more

Product Description: Work on power is sprawling and seemingly eclectic - this Eight-Volume Set combines Power and Politics, along with the companion set Power and Organizations, to take stock of the theory by reviewing its foundations, current status and emerging new directions in both organization studies and political theory...read more

Product Description: Internationally renowned editors, Stewart R. Clegg and Mark Haugaard, have joined forces to compile two separate but related collections on power theory - a field that continues to have a huge impact across the social sciences. Power and Organizations takes stock of power theory by reviewing its foundations, current status and emerging new directions in organization studies, while its companion, Power and Politics continues this work in the context of political theory...read more

Product Description: Power and Politics, along with the companion set Power and Organizations, takes stock of power theory by reviewing its foundations, current status and emerging new directions in both organization studies and political theory. While there is evident synergy and cross-fertilization across the fields of organization studies and political theory, through the impact of work by figures such as Lukes, Bourdieu, Foucault, Haugaard, Clegg, Dean, Allen, and others there is sufficient distinction to warrant two separate but related collections...read more

Product Description: Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures...read more

Product Description: This book provides the first systematic examination of the relationship of hegemony and power. Nine essays delve into the diverse analytical aspects of the two concepts, and an introduction and conclusion by the editors, respectively, forge a synthesis of their theoretical coherence...read more

Product Description: We live in a rapidly changing world. The collapse of the Cold War, the development of new technologies and the globalisation of the world economy have all had a dramatic impact on societies across the globe. Migration, new types of wars and changing borders mean that even the stability and security of nation-states has become a thing of the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power from important twentieth century figures including Weber, Arendt and Foucault...read more

Product Description: This major book provides an up-to-date and state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary theory and practice of the most central concept in political science: power. The concept of political power is introduced within a three-part framework: contemporary theories of power; applications of power processes and practices; and the implications of modern power flows across the globe today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The constitution of power" is an excellent introduction to the analysis of social and political power and an original contribution to contemporary theory. Mark Haugaard discusses the relationship between power, structure and knowledge and offers vital insights into some of the core debates which have dominated contemporary social and political theory for the past 20 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book studies the production of power and the creation of structures through the use of models. It develops the conflictual and consensual traditions of power and the structuration presective (Giddens) of structures. The bringing together of the two strands offers an alternative theoretical perspective...read more