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Politics and public policy

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Politics and public policyedited by Harland Prechel.
其他作者:	Prechel, Harland N.
出版者:	Bingley, UK :Emerald JAI,c2008.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xviii, 206 p.) :ill.
標題:	Political sociology.
電子資源:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0895-9935/17
ISBN:	9781848551794 (electronic bk.)

Politics and public policy
Politics and public policy[electronic resource] /edited by Harland Prechel. - 1st ed. - Bingley, UK :Emerald JAI,c2008. - 1 online resource (xviii, 206 p.) :ill. - Research in political sociology,v. 170895-9935 ;. - Research in political sociology ;v. 17..

Includes bibliographical references.

This volume of "Research in Political Sociology" focuses on one of the central themes in political sociology: the relationship between political power and the policy formation process. The first section examines the exercise of power in two distinct policy arenas: the interlockingnetworks among policy-planning organizations, and the effects of PACs on the voting behavior of elected officials in Canada and the U.S. In contrast to corporate interlocking directorates, although a shift to theright occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, board interlocks of policy-planning organizations are relatively stable over time. The second article shows that PACs affect voting behavior of U.S. elected officials, but they have little influence on voting in Canada's House of Commons. This suggests that thestructure of the state affects the capacity of elitesto exercise power over it.The second section examines the capacity of theories in economic sociology to explain the social organization of capitalism. The authors move beyond the current institutional frameworks by elaborating how the generic tendencies and contradictions of capitalism generate political conflicts and outcomes. This framework also stresses how organizational and institutional structures, class conflict, logics of action, and the contradictions of capitalism shape and limit the options that are available to social actors. The articles in the third section examine the effects of labor and community based political strategies on policy outcomes. These articles identify the contingent basis of political behavior and show how social structures and historicalconditions create both opportunities for and limitations on the exercise power.Whereas the legal structure of labor relations in the U.S. limited the capacity of workers to mobilize, the flexibility of community-based coalitions increased their capacity to form coalitions to mobilize politically. Together, the articles in this volume show that political struggles are integral to capitalist society. These struggles take a range of forms and the outcomes are affected by the historically specific organizational and institutional arrangements in which they are embedded.

ISBN: 9781848551794 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

175048
Political sociology.

LC Class. No.: JK31 / .P65 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 320.6

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 32

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