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• Author(s): John R. Hall • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis volume of especially commissioned essays explains what is meant by "civil society", paying particular attention to t...

• Author(s): Michael Edwards • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralNow in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of volunt...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirati...

• Author(s): Michael Edwards • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralNow in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of volunt...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirati...

• Author(s): Michael Edwards • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Social ScienceCivil Society has become a standard work of reference for those who seek to understand the role ...

• Author(s): Bin Xu • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAgainst the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they shou...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyThis book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Mode...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyThis book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Mode...

• Author(s): Bin Xu • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAgainst the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today's world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people's belief that they shou...

• Author(s): Peter Collier • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de Fr...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralEven as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except...

• Author(s): Michael Newman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWhat should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a w...

• Author(s): Mary Kaldor • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThe terms 'global' and 'civil society' have both become part of the contemporary political lexicon. In this important new book, Mary Kaldor...

• Author(s): Xavier Paul¿s • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralThe declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of...

• Author(s): Mary Kaldor • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThe terms 'global' and 'civil society' have both become part of the contemporary political lexicon. In this important new book, Mary Kaldor...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentIn this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wi...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentIn this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wi...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: World - AsianIndian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: World - AsianIndian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian...

• Author(s): Nadia Urbinati • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalSpeak your mind, always. Hypocrisy challenges this rule of authenticity, and for this very reason hypocrisy is judged negatively, as intenti...

• Author(s): Kurt Schock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political AdvocacyFrom Gandhi's salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote d...

• Author(s): William E. Scheuerman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Violence in SocietyWhat is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even tod...

• Author(s): John D. Brewer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PeacePeace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that ...

• Author(s): Eli Zaretsky • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of ...

• Author(s): Richard Johnson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Civil RightsDemocracy in the United States is under threat. The Trump administration’s attack on the legacy of the civil rights movement is undermin...

• Author(s): Karl Polanyi • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralAt a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembl...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralEven as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except...