Max Weber, democracy and modernization

Palgrave Macmillan

1998

206 p.

9780333712542

The concept of democracy in Weber's political sociology, S. Bruer; democratization in world-historical perspective, R. Collins; state formation and the disciplined individual in Weber's historical sociology, R. Axtmann; Max Weber and plebiscitary democracy, S. Eliaeson; the nation-state, the Protestant ethic, and modernization, S. Whimster; from Weber's political sociology to contemporary liberal democracy, R. Schroeder; Tocqueville and Weber on the sociological origins of citizenship -- the political culture of American democracy, S. Kalberg; Maz Weber and European integration, C. Levy; back to "Mitteleuropa"? -- Weber, Germany, and contemporary central Europe, Z. Krasnodebski; Soviet communism and Weberian sociology, S. Bruer; Western impact and Asian values in Japan's modernization -- a Weberian critique, W. Schwentker; reframing orientalism -- Weber and Islam, M. Nafissi

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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