Political Power and Social Theory
Will be published approx. on 3. February 2000
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-7623-0497-4 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 13 critically probes the significance of worldwide transformations in political and economic systems, asking: are new patterns of liberalization producing fundamental shifts in social, political and economic life? In what ways is agency important for understanding the historical formation and current development of new global and domestic patterns? Among themes examined in six studies are the emergence and autonomy of banking systems in both advanced capitalist and transitional states: how socialist institutions persist and relate to democracy; and the disruptions and opportunities that liberalization has provided to workers. A Scholarly Controversy features a condensed version of Giovanni Arrighi's and Beverly Silver's forthcoming book "Chaos and Governance" with responses from scholars who take different global and domestic perspectives, units of analysis, and time horizons to revisit the volume's earlier themes.
Reviews / Votes
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA How do 'we' create a society/world based on social and economic justice... There is, of course, no single answer... The authors in this edited volume understand this issue; nonetheless, they still share a common hope that a more just and egalitarian society can be created. Indeed, that hope and a critical analysis of society can be created. Indeed, that hope and a critical analysis of sociohistorical and contemporary processes are the driving forces behind these essays. Contemporary SociologyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
669 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0497-4 (9780762304974)
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Content
The Social Construction of Banking Systems. Meidating the boudnaries between state and society: explaining shifts in central bank independence (S.E. Stockdale). Russian bankers: agents of capital and structural change? (N. Dinello). The Political Economy of Market Reform. Networks of governance and privatization: a view from provincial Russia (A.D. Buck). The impact of privatization on labor in Venezuela: radical reorganization or moderate adjustment? (S. Ellner). Democracy, Liberalization, and Left Solidarity. Palm workers, patrons, and political violence in Colombia: a window of opportunity for the left despite trade liberalization (L. Carroll). Civic republicanism versus social struggle: a Gramscian approach to associationalism in Italy (M. Kohn). Scholarly Controversy: Chaos And Governance. Hegemonic transitions: past and present (G. Arrighi, B.J. Silver). A new emergent hegemonic structure? (S. Sassen). Cycles, spirals, and transcendence (W. Goldfrank). Differentiation and the sources of destabilization (W.H. McNeill). Hegemonic transition: a rejoinder (G. Arrighi, B.J. Silver).