This book constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democratic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
This book constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democratic Parties of...
Offers an introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly sociological theory, for the understanding of political life. This title covers the topics that include sociology and the discipline of politics, the elementary forms of political life, and the relationship between theory, evidence and insight.
Offers an introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly sociological theory, for the understanding of politica...
Offers a fresh approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised. This book examines the theoretical approaches to an understanding of their role in the political process and presents a number of specific studies.
Offers a fresh approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised. This book ...
This volume, first published in 1967, offers a new approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised in recent years. Francis Castles seeks to throw light on this topic, firstly by examining the theoretical approaches to an understanding of their role in the political process and secondy by presenting a number of specific studies. For the first time, in one small volume, the reader can become acquainted with pressure groups in continental Europe, Scandinavia, the United States, the totalitarian countries, and the...
This volume, first published in 1967, offers a new approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been...
First published in 1971, this is a clear, straightforward introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly sociological theory, for the understanding of political life. The topics covered include sociology and the discipline of politics, the elementary forms of political life, and the relationship between theory, evidence and insight. Francis Castles also looks at functionalism and the analysis of conflict as sociological meta-theories, and at the idea of anomie and the theory of mass society.
The book should be of prime interest to students of...
First published in 1971, this is a clear, straightforward introductory discussion of the importance of sociological knowledge, and particularly soc...
