Handbook of Politics State and Society in Global Perspective

Kevin T. Leicht, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA J. Craig Jenkins, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field al

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Handbook of

Politics State and Society in Global Perspective

Edited by

Kevin T. Leicht The University of Iowa Department of Sociology, Iowa City, IA, USA

J. Craig Jenkins The Ohio State University Department of Sociology, Columbus, OH, USA

Editors Kevin T. Leicht Department of Sociology The University of Iowa 124 Seashore Hall W. Iowa City, IA USA

J. Craig Jenkins Department of Sociology The Ohio State University 190 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH USA

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ISBN 978-0-387-68929-6 e-ISBN 978-0-387-68930-2 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-68930-2 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933260 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contributors Jeffrey Alexander, The Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Paul Almeida, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Edwin Amenta, Department of Sociology, University of California- Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA Peter J. Barwis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA Jason Beckfield, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA David Brady, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Robert Brulle, Department of Culture and Communications, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Val Burris, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA Paul Burstein, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Nitsan Chorev, Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Terry Nichols Clark, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Edward Crenshaw, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Joshua Dubrow, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Delia Dumitrescu, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Andrew Fullerton, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA Liah Greenfeld, Department of Political