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Max Weber, democracy and modernization

edited byRalph Schroeder

Abstract

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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The concept of democracy in Weber's political sociology Stefan Breuer

pp.1-13

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_1
Democratization in world-historical perspective Randall Collins

pp.14-31

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_2
State formation and the disciplined individual in Weber's historical sociology Roland Axtmann

pp.32-46

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_3
Max Weber and plebiscitary democracy Sven Eliaeson

pp.47-60

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_4
The nation-state, the protestant ethic and modernization Sam Whimster

pp.61-78

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_5
From Weber's political sociology to contemporary liberal democracy Ralph Schroeder

pp.79-92

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_6
Tocqueville and Weber on the sociological origins of citizenship

the political culture of American democracy

Stephen Kalberg

pp.93-112

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_7
Max Weber and European integration Carl Levy

pp.113-128

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_8
Back to Mitteleuropa?

Weber, Germany and contemporary central Europe

pp.129-144

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_9
Soviet communism and weberian sociology Stefan Breuer

pp.145-165

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_10
Western impact and Asian values in Japan's modernization

a Weberian critique

Wolfgang Schwentker

pp.166-181

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_11
Reframing orientalism

Weber and Islam

Mohammad Nafissi

pp.182-201

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8_12

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1998

Pages: 206

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8

ISBN (hardback): 978-0-333-71254-2

ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-26836-8

Full citation:

Schroeder Ralph (1998) Max Weber, democracy and modernization. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.