1st Edition

Civil Society and Class Politics Essays on the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset

By Irving Louis Horowitz Copyright 2009
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Seymour Martin Lipset's work throughout a long and distinguished career has been stamped by several features: a powerful linkage of research data and social theory, innovative views of historical events, and a realization that politics is an activity native to all human beings, voters and non-voters, democratic and non-democratic systems, and advanced and developing economies. He has earned the... Read more
Acknowledgments, 1. What Happened to Socialism and Does It Matter?, 2. Seymour Martin Lipset: The Social Uses of Anomaly, 3. The Breakdown of Class Politics, 4. When Leadership Failed, 5. Unequal at the Starting Line: Creating Participatory Inequalities across Generations and among Groups, 6. Political Extremism—Left, Center, and Right, 7. American Religion and Political Polarities, 8. Lipset and “Working-Class” Authoritarianism, 9. An Analysis of U.S. Civil Society, 10. Steady Work: An Academic Memoir, Books, Monographs, and Pamphlets by Seymour Martin Lipset

Biography

Irving Louis Horowitz