This completely revised and updated fifth edition of the successful introduction to political sociology text by Tony Orum includes contributions by a new co-author, John G. Dale, as well as four brand new chapters, introducing timely topics related to the field such as social movements; the mass media; and theorist Karl Polyani.

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; POWER AND AUTHORITY; INSTITUTIONS, NETWORKS, AND CULTURE; VISIONS OF SOCIETIES AND POLITICS: MARX, WEBER, DURKHEIM, DE TOQUEVILLE, AND POLANYI; PEDAGOGICAL GUIDELINES; CHAPTER 2. ON THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS: KARL MARX AND THE NEO MARXISTS; KARL MARX ON THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS; THE NEO-MARXISTS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 3. ON STATES AND SOCIETIES: MAX WEBER AND THE NEO-WEBERIANS; MAX WEBER ON STATES AND POLITICS; THE NEO-WEBERIANS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS: EMILE DURKHEIM AND ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE; EMILE DURKHEIM ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS; ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS; THE NEO-CONSENSUALISTS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: ON THE POLITICS, LAW, AND MORALITY OF MARKETS; KARL POLANYI; FUTURE PROSPECTS; NOTES; CHAPTER 6: BASIC FORMS OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY; BASIC TYPES OF POLITICAL RULE: THE CLASSICAL GREEK CONCEPTIONS; TYPES OF POLITICAL RULE IN THE MODERN WORLD; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 7: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN AMERICA; PROLOGUE; THE POWER OF THE AMERICAN STATE; THE POWER OF BUSINESS AND CORPORATIONS; EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY IN MODERN AMERICA; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 8: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE METROPOLIS; THE METROPOLIS IN AMERICAN HISTORY; THE POLITICS OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CITY; INTERPRETING THE CITY; REMAKING THE AMERICAN CITY; CITIES AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 9: POLITICAL PARTIES; THE NATURE OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES; THE BIRTH OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES; VARIATIONS IN MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES: HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT AND EARLY PATTERNS; THE POWER AND POLITICS OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES; THE PAST AND FUTURE OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES: THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES; NOTES; CHAPTER 10: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: BASIC PERSPECTIVES; THE NATURE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR VS. COLLECTIVE ACTION; NEW PARADIGMS FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; MOBILIZATION, AND FRAMING; BEYOND DEMOCRATIC ELITISM AND DEMOCRATIC FUNDAMENTALISM: THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND PRESSURES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE; THE POLITICS OF INFLUENCE; CULTURE, STRUCTURE, STATES; NOTES; CHAPTER 11: TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND GLOBALIZATION; THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF GLOBALIZATION; THE FREE BURMA MOVEMENT AS TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT; NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND RESEARCH; NOTES; CHAPTER 12: THE MASS MEDIA; HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE MASS MEDIA IN AMERICA; THE MASS MEDIA AS A VEHICLE OF CORPORATE CAPITALISM; THE MASS MEDIA AND THEIR INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY; THE MEDIA AND THE BUSINESS OF MAKING THE NEWS; THE PUBLIC AND ITS VIEW AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THE MEDIA; THE FUTURE OF THE NEWS AND THE NEWS OF THE FUTURE; NOTES; CHAPTER 13: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY; DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND PARTICIPATION; A CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY: RATIONAL CHOICE; RATIONAL CHOICE AND COLLECTIVE ACTION; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN EVERYDAY SOCIAL LIFE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL CLEAVAGES; PROMOTING POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY; NOTES

"This is an excellent book that manages to walk the fine line between accessibility and complexity. It introduces advanced concepts with fairness to the original while also preserving a measure of accessibility for undergraduates. I especially like the time the book takes with early theorists and the effort it makes with connecting the subject matter to sociology, defining and justifying a specifically sociological approach to politics. I've been looking forward to this new edition, and I am sure it will find broad adoption in the classroom."--Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Massachusetts "This is a comprehensive text that exposes students to the broad field of political sociology. I am particularly appreciative of the recognition of the importance of historical and cultural factors in understanding social reality. For these reasons, I will adopt it for my political sociology course."--Oliver Benoit, Brandeis University

"This is an excellent book that manages to walk the fine line between accessibility and complexity. It introduces advanced concepts with fairness to the original while also preserving a measure of accessibility for undergraduates. I especially like the time the book takes with early theorists and the effort it makes with connecting the subject matter to sociology, defining and justifying a specifically sociological approach to politics. I've been looking forward to this new edition, and I am sure it will find broad adoption in the classroom."--Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Massachusetts "This is a comprehensive text that exposes students to the broad field of political sociology. I am particularly appreciative of the recognition of the importance of historical and cultural factors in understanding social reality. For these reasons, I will adopt it for my political sociology course."--Oliver Benoit, Brandeis University