Global & Comparative Sociology
Political Sociology
2015

Agarwala, Rina. 2013. Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

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

 

Auyero, Javier. 2000. “The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina: An Ethnographic Account.” Latin American Research Review 35(3):55-81.

 

Badie, Betrand, and Pierre Birnbaum. 1983. The Sociology of the State, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. University of Chicago Press.

 

Bayat, Asef. 2013. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

Beckfield, Jason. 2003. “Inequality in the World Polity: The Structure of International Organization.” American Sociological Review 68: 401-424.

 

Beckfield, Jason. 2010. “The Social Structure of the World Polity.” American Journal of Sociology 114(4): 1018-1068.

 

Bendix, Reinhard. 1964. Nation-Building and Citizenship. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Boli, John, and George M. Thomas. 1997. “World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-governmental Organization.” American Sociological Review 62:171-190.

 

Block, Fred. 1977. “The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State.” Socialist Revolution 7: 6-28.

 

Brady, David. 2009. Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Brady, David, and Benjamin Sosnaud. 2010. “The Politics of Economic Inequality.” Pp. 521-541 in Handbook of Politics, edited by Kevin Leicht and Craig Jenkins. New York: Springer.

 

Brubaker, Rogers. 1992. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

 

Burawoy, Michael. 1985. The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism. London: Verso.

 

Burawoy, Michael. 2003. “For a Sociological Marxism: The Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi.” Politics & Society 31(2):193-261.

 

Carbonaro, William. 2006. “Cross-National Differences in the Skills-Earnings Relationship: The Role of Skill Demands and Labor Market Institutions.” Social Forces 84: 1819-1842.

 

Chatterjee, Partha. 2011. Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Chirot, Daniel. 1985. “The Rise of the West.” American Sociological Review 50:181-195.

 

Chun, Jennifer Jihye. 2005. “Public Dramas and the Politics of Justice: Comparison of Janitors’ Union Struggles in South Korea and the United States.” Work and Occupations 32(4):486-503.

 

Chung, Haejoo, and Carles Muntaner. 2006. “Political and Welfare State Determinants of Infant and Child Health Indicators: An Analysis of Wealthy Countries.” Social Science and Medicine 63: 829-842.

 

Conley, Dalton, and Kristen W. Springer. 2001. “Welfare State and Infant Mortality.” American Journal of Sociology 107(3): 768-807.

 

De Genova, Nicholas and Nathalie Peutz. 2010. The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement.

 

Dobbin, Frank. 1994. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Esping-Anderson, Gosta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Evans, Peter. 1997. “The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization.” World Politics 50(1):62-87.

 

Evans, Peter B., and James E. Rauch. 1999. “Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of ‘Weberian’ State Structures on Economic Growth.” American Sociological Review 64(5):748-765.

                                                                                                                                    

Fanon, Frantz. 1961. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.

 

Foucault, Michel. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books.

 

Gangl, Markus. 2004. “Welfare States and the Scar Effects of Unemployment: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and West Germany.” American Journal of Sociology 109: 1319-1364.

 

Geva, Dorit. 2014. “Of Bellicists and Feminists: French Conscription, Total War, and the Gender Contradictions of the State” Politics & Society 42: 135-165.

 

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 2002. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.

 

Guillen, Mauro F. 2001. “Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature.” Annual Review of Sociology 27:235-260.

 

Hall, Peter A., and David Soskice. 2001. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. New York: Oxford University Press. Read the introduction.

 

Hayek, F.A. 1944. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Hironaka, Ann. 2005. Neverending Wars: The International Community, Weak States, and the Perpetuation of Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Hough, Phillip A. 2012. “A Race to the Bottom?: Globalization, Labor Repression, and Development by Dispossession in Latin America’s Banana Industry.” Global Labour Journal 3(2): 237-264.

                                                                                                                

Huber, Evelyne, Francois Nielsen, Jenny Pribble, and John D. Stephens. 2006. “Politics and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.” American Sociological Review 71: 943-963.

 

Huber, Evelyne, and John D. Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Huntington, Samuel P. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs 72(3): 22-49

 

Huntington, Samuel P. 1996. “The West: Unique, Not Universal.” Foreign Affairs 75(6): 28-46.

 

Jackson, Robert H., and Carl G. Rosberg. 1982. “Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood.” World Politics 35(1): 1-24.

 

Jenkins, J. Craig, and Stephen J. Scanlan. 2001. “Food Security in Less Developed Countries, 1970 to 1990.” American Sociological Review 66: 718-744.

 

Jepperson, Ronald. 2002. “Political Modernities: Disentangling Two Underlying Dimensions of Institutional Differentiation.” Sociological Theory 20(1): 61-85.

 

Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists beyond Borders. Cornell University Press.

 

Kerckhoff, Alan. 1995. “Institutional Arrangements and Stratification Processes in Industrialized Societies.” Annual Review of Sociology 15: 323-347.

 

Kenworthy, Lane. 2002. “Corporatism and Unemployment in the 1980s and 1990s.” American Sociological Review 67: 367-388.

 

Kiser, Edgar and April Linton. 2001. “Determinants of the Growth of the State: War and Taxation in Early Modern France and England.” Social Forces 80(2): 411-448.

 

Kitschelt, Herbert P. 1986. “Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies.” British Journal of Political Science 16: 57-85.

 

Korpi, Walter, and Michael Shalev. 1979. “Strikes, Industrial Relations and Class Conflict in Capitalist Societies.” British Journal of Sociology 30: 164-187. 

 

Korpi, Walter. 1989. “Power, Politics and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship: Social Rights During Sickness in Eighteen Countries Since 1930.” American Sociological Review 54: 309-328. 

 

Korpi, Walter, and Joakim Palme. 1998. “The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries.” American Sociological Review 63: 661-687.

 

Krasner, Stephen. 2001. “Abiding Sovereignty.” International Political Science Review 22(3): 229-251.

 

Krücken, Georg, and Gili S. Drori, eds. 2009. World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Lange, Matthew, James Mahoney, and Matthias vom Hau. 2006. “Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies.” American Journal of Sociology 111(5): 1412-1462.

 

Mamdami, Mahmood. 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Mandel, Hadas and Moshe Semyonov. 2006. “A Welfare State Paradox: State Interventions and Women’s Employment Opportunities in 22 Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 111: 1910-1949.

 

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Marshall, T.H. Citizenship and Social Class. 1987 [1949]. Pluto Press.

 

McNeely, Connie. 1993. “The Determination of Statehood in the United Nations, 1945-1985.” Research in Political Sociology 6: 1-38.

                             

Mitchell, Timothy. 1999. “Society, Economy, and the State Effect” in Steinmetz, George (ed.) State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

 

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Nettl, J.P. 1968. “The State as a Conceptual Variable.” World Politics 20: 559-592.

 

O’Riain, Sean. 2000. “States and Markets in an Era of Globalization.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:187-213.

 

Olafsdottir, Sigrun. 2007. “Fundamental Causes of Health Disparities: Stratification, the Welfare State, and Health in the United States and Iceland.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48: 239-253

 

Orloff, Ann. 1996. “Gender in the Welfare State.” Annual Review of Sociology 22:51-78.

 

Paige, Jeffrey M. 1997. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.

 

Pierson, Christopher, and Francis G. Castles, eds. 2012. The Welfare State Reader, 3rd edition. London: Polity Press. Older editions are fine.

                                            

Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon.

Poulantzaz, Nicos. 1969. “The Problem of the Capitalist State” New Left Review 58: 238-62.

 

Przeworski, Adam. 1985. Capitalism and Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Rosen, Jennifer. 2013. “The Effects of Political Institutions on Women’s Political Representation: A Comparative Analysis of 168 Countries from 1992 to 2010.” Political Research Quarterly 66(2): 306-321.

                                                                                                                             

Scott, James. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

 

Seidman, Gay. 1994. Manufacturing Militance: Workers Movements in Brazil and South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

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

 

Sorensen, Aage. 1996. “The Structural Basis of Social Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 101: 1333-1365.

 

Soysal, Yasemin. 1994. Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Strang, David. 1991. “Global Patterns of Decolonization, 1500–1987.” International Studies Quarterly 35: 429-54.

 

Strayer, Joseph R. 2005 [1970]. On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

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

 

Viterna, Jocelyn. 2014. Women in War: The Micro-Processes of Mobilization in El Salvador. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Wimmer, Andreas, and Yuval Feinstein. 2010. “The Rise of the Nation-State Across the World, 1816-2001.” American Sociological Review 75(5): 764-790.