List of Contributors.

Preface.

Part I: Power and Politics.

Part II: Globalization.

Part III: Social Movements and the Politicization of the Social.

Part IV: Citizenship, Exclusion, and Difference.

Part V: Democracy.

"Finally - a collection that explores political sociology as a series of conceptual political problems, as opposed to a diffuse empirical array. These articles raise the most central issues in political sociology in a way that engages and challenges the reader." Michael Kimmel, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Kate Nash is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of Women (1998).

K. Nash, Goldsmiths College, University of London