Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; Part I Class Elections and Parties: Class voting in capitalist democracies since World War II: dealignment, realignment or trendless fluctuation?, Jeff Manza, Michael Hout and Clem Brooks; Representing difference: why should it matter if women get elected?, Anne Phillips. Part II Civil Society and Political Participation: Renewing democracy through associations, Paul Hirst; Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology, Alejandro Portes. Part III Social Movements: Political opportunity structures and political protest: anti-nuclear movements in 4 democracies, Herbert P. Kitschelt; Framing processes and social movements: an overview and assessment, Robert D. Benford and David A. Snow; The symbolic challenge of contemporary movements, Alberto Melucci; To map contentious politics, Doug McAdam; Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly. Part IV Changing Citizenship: Outline of a theory of citizenship, Bryan S. Turner; The return of assimilation? Changing perspectives on immigration and its sequels in France, Germany and the United States, Rogers Brubaker; Dilemmas in engendering citizenship, Ruth Lister; Is European citizenship possible?, Etienne Balibar. Part V Ideology and Hegemony: Ideology and ideological state apparatuses: notes towards an investigation, L. Althusser; Culture, the media and the 'ideological effect', Stuart Hall; Welcome to the desert of the real!, Slavoj Zizek. Part VI Political Culture and Cultural Politics: Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight, Clifford Geertz; Civil religion in America, Robert N. Bellah; Restoring history and politics to '3rd world traditions', Uma Nayaran. Part VII Making Things Public and the Public Sphere: The public sphere: an encyclopedia article, Jürgen Habermas; Rethinking the public sphere: a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy, Nancy Fraser; From realpolitik to dingpolitik or how to make things public, Bruno Latour; The deconstruction of politics, Zygmunt Bauman; Name index.