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Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization

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  • © 1998

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  1. Ralph Schroeder

    1. School of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University, Sweden

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Concept of Democracy in Weber’s Political Sociology

    • Stefan Breuer
    Pages 1-13

  3. Democratization in World-Historical Perspective

    • Randall Collins
    Pages 14-31

  4. State Formation and the Disciplined Individual in Weber’s Historical Sociology

    • Roland Axtmann
    Pages 32-46

  5. Max Weber and Plebiscitary Democracy

    • Sven Eliaeson
    Pages 47-60

  6. The Nation-State, the Protestant Ethic and Modernization

    • Sam Whimster
    Pages 61-78

  7. From Weber’s Political Sociology to Contemporary Liberal Democracy

    • Ralph Schroeder
    Pages 79-92

  8. Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy

    • Stephen Kalberg
    Pages 93-112

  9. Max Weber and European Integration

    • Carl Levy
    Pages 113-128

  10. Back to Mitteleuropa? Weber, Germany and Contemporary Central Europe

    • Zdzislaw Krasnodebski
    Pages 129-144

  11. Soviet Communism and Weberian Sociology

    • Stefan Breuer
    Pages 145-165

  12. Western Impact and Asian Values in Japan’s Modernization: A Weberian Critique

    • Wolfgang Schwentker
    Pages 166-181

  13. Reframing Orientalism: Weber and Islam

    • Mohammad Nafissi
    Pages 182-201

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 202-206
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These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.

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  • School of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University, Sweden

    Ralph Schroeder

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RALPH SCHROEDER is Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture and Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology.

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