In this book, Sean Safford compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Allentown has seen a noticeable rebound over the course of the past twenty years. Facing a collapse of its steel-making firms, its economy has reinvented itself by transforming existing companies, building an entrepreneurial sector, and attracting inward investment. Youngstown was similar to Allentown in its industrial history, the composition of its labor force, and other important variables, and yet instead of adapting in the face of acute economic crisis, it fell into a mean race to the bottom.Challenging various theoretical perspectives on regional socioeconomic change, "Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown" argues that the structure of social networks among the cities' economic, political, and civic leaders account for the divergent trajectories of post-industrial regions. It offers a probing historical explanation for the decline, fall, and unlikely rejuvenation of the Rust Belt. Emphasizing the power of social networks to shape action, determine access to and control over information and resources, define the contexts in which problems are viewed, and enable collective action in the face of externally generated crises, this book points toward present-day policy prescriptions for the ongoing plight of mature industrial regions in the U.S. and abroad.

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatisation of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. Offering a critique of the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved. Dr Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons. In contrast to the proposition of the tragedy of the commons argument, common pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organisations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries.

A timely exploration into a topic somewhat neglected in recent year, filling a gap in the affective sciences literature
Provides an interdisciplinary account of the topic, providing information of interest to those across psychology, philosophy, and sociology
Considers collective emotions both in the physical and the virtual world
Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass psychology and the sociology of rituals and social movements, their importance for individuals and the social world has never been more obvious than in the past decades. The Arab Spring revolution, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and mass gatherings at music festivals or mega sports events clearly show the impact collective emotions have both in terms of driving conflict and in uniting people. But these examples only show the most obvious and evident forms of collective emotions. Others are more subtle, although less important: shared moods, emotional atmospheres, and intergroup emotions are part and parcel of our social life. Although these phenomena go hand in hand with any formation of sociality, they are little understood. Moreover, there still is a large gap in our understanding of individual emotions on the one hand and collective emotional phenomena on the other hand.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary theories and research on collective emotions. It spans several disciplines and brings together, for the first time, various strands of inquiry and up-to-date research in the study of collective emotions and related phenomena. In focusing on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in collective emotion research, the volume narrows the gap between the wealth of studies on individual emotions and inquiries into collective emotions. The book catches up with a renewed interest into the collective dimensions of emotions and their close relatives, for example emotional climates, atmospheres, communities, and intergroup emotions. This interest is propelled by a more general increase in research on the social and interpersonal aspects of emotion on the one hand, and by trends in philosophy and cognitive science towards refined conceptual analyses of collective entities and the collective properties of cognition on the other hand. The book includes sections on: Conceptual Perspectives; Collective Emotion in Face-to-Face Interactions; The Social-Relational Dimension of Collective Emotion; The Social Consequences of Collective Emotions; Group-Based and Intergroup Emotion; Rituals, Movements, and Social Organization; and Collective Emotions in Online Social Systems.
Including contributions from psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and neuroscience, this volume is a unique and valuable contribution to the affective sciences literature.
Readership: Students and researchers in the affective sciences - psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology

This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance - non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation - is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, and the developments in the Arab world since December 2010, it has helped to shape the world we live in. Civil Resistance and Power Politics covers most of the leading cases, including the actions master-minded by Gandhi, the US civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the 'people power' revolt in the Philippines in the 1980s, the campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, the various movements contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91, and, in this century, the 'colour revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine. The chapters, written by leading experts, are richly descriptive and analytically rigorous. This book addresses the complex interrelationship between civil resistance and other dimensions of power. It explores the question of whether civil resistance should be seen as potentially replacing violence completely, or as a phenomenon that operates in conjunction with, and modification of, power politics. It looks at cases where campaigns were repressed, including China in 1989 and Burma in 2007. It notes that in several instances, including Northern Ireland, Kosovo and, Georgia, civil resistance movements were followed by the outbreak of armed conflict. It also includes a chapter with new material from Russian archives showing how the Soviet leadership responded to civil resistance, and a comprehensive bibliographical essay. Illustrated throughout with a remarkable selection of photographs, this uniquely wide-ranging and path-breaking study is written in an accessible style and is intended for the general reader as well as for students of Modern History, Politics, Sociology, and International Relations.

《东方编译所译丛：国家与权力》是一部令人振奋并感到刺激的当代社会科学文献，对美国社会和国际社会面临的一些重大问题做了细致深入的探讨。如何解决这些问题，并对座落在资本主义世界历史、民族主义和民主中心的情况进行综合评价，将会给予我们以全新的视野和富有意义的启发。

◎一部20世纪阴暗面史书
◎韦伯之后最伟大的社会学家迈克尔·曼重塑对历史的理解
◎充满挑衅的现代民主新理论
◎凶残的种族清洗为何是现代民主的丑恶面？
当同一片领土上，两个对立的种族民族主义组织都声称自己拥有国家主权时，危险产生了；当弱势的一方由于外部的支援而不愿屈服、选 择战斗，或者强势的一方认为自己能够骤然展 开锐不可当的武力行动时，冲突便升级了……行动升级并不只是“邪恶的精英”或者“未开化的民族”的杰作，它同样产生于领袖、激进分子以及种族民族主义的“核心拥护者”之间的复杂互动。
曼的解读聚焦于社会中的政治权力关系，令人信服地阐明了种族清洗的源头及升级过程，有助于避免悲剧再次发生。
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√ 迈克尔·曼是宏伟思想的多产者，这本巨著中天才、雄辩和发人深思的内容俯拾皆是。从书名开始，本书就引发了一场争论，它借助人类历史上最好的，来重塑我们对人类历史中最坏方面的理解，借助现代的观点来重塑我们对古老历史的理解。曼将缜密的实证研究与对观念的权威掌控结合在一起。字里行间都有值得称赞、讨论或深思的观点。对它的讨论仍将持续多年。
——本·基曼（Ben Kiernan），耶鲁大学种族灭绝研究项目主任
√ 社会学术语全无，历史大数据充足，这份研究为外行读者开辟了足够的通道。
——《出版人周刊》（Publishers Weekly）
√ 内容有如百科全书，叙述分析异常丰富，本书为政治社会学作出了重大贡献，对社会科学学者、政治领导人、政策制定者而言，这都是必读之作。
——《选择》（Choice）
√ 在这本重要而充满挑衅性的书中，这位杰出的社会学家曼提出，凶残的种族清洗事实上是我们现代民主时代的丑恶一面，“它属于我们的文明，属于我们自身”……在种族清洗这个领域，曼的阐释绝非定论，但已跻身最成熟深刻作品之列。
——《外交事务》 （Foreign Affairs）
√ 曼的书为研究残忍的种族清洗做了十分有价值的贡献。他大范围地聚合了各种观点和亲历者讲述，这种能力使他的努力适时且值得，因而这对任何研究或处理种族冲突方面问题的人都非常有用。另外一个值得称道的地方是，曼的这本书到达了一种层次，它能同时满足他的同代人和学生们的好奇心，而这也必然会激起更多的对这一论题的探询。
——《东南欧政治期刊》（Southeast European Politics）
√《民主的阴暗面》……是一本强大的书，在某种程度上成功地引出了一套阐释这些悲惨事件的宏伟社会学理论……曼的作品代表了当代历史社会学的最高水平——广博、论据充足、富有趣味、密切关乎当下——所有的读者都必定会对他的结论满怀敬意……
——《泰晤士报高等教育增刊》（The Times Higher Education Supplement）
√这是一本非常重要的书……曼拿出了一份有力的分析，足以引人深思……如今，种族清洗这个问题已经成了媒体菜单中的一个稳定部分，每个关注种族清洗的人都应该去读这本书。
——《英国社会犯罪学》（British Society of Criminology）
√ 迈克尔•曼的《民主的阴暗面》这一令人印象深刻的作品，使人们向着阐明造成如此后果的具体社会研究和社会状况前进了一大步……这是一份巨大的成就。
——《新左翼评论》（New Left Review）
√ 在《民主的阴暗面》中，曼审视了民主化与种族清洗之间的密切关系……与多数其他社会学家不同，曼并不爱用术语。即便这本书很厚重，但所有抱着非学术想法、并耗费精力去读这本书的人，都会觉得物有所值。
——《新闻日报》 （News Day）
√ 迈克尔•曼的新著涉猎甚广、立论大胆。它的核心主题——残忍的种族清洗伴随着救世宗教与近代民主的诞生而来——与人们普遍的观点截然相反……近年来在该主题上最好的著作之一。
——贝思·A. 西蒙斯（Beth A. Simmons），哈佛大学
√ 尽管我对曼的理论有所保留，但这部作品明显是重要的。而且，他构成了本书大部分内容的案例研究，叙述清晰，细节丰富，而且优秀到足以令人生畏。作为一部20世纪阴暗面史书，《民主的阴暗面》很难被打败。
——乔治•希尔拉巴（George Scialabba） 著名书评人 《波士顿环球报》（Boston Globe）

本书是一部以论述民主政治的社会基础为主旨的政治社会学的经典著作。主要讨论了以下问题：民主体制所必需的社会体制；民主社会不同类型的政治冲突；西方民主国家的选举和投票行为；造成反民主倾向的某些特殊原因；参与政治的根源；在美国和其他国家中支持政党的种种社会基础；美国知识分子的地位及其在政治生活中的转化功能等等，对民间社团——工会也作了个案研究，分析了工会内部的政治结构及其运作的实际。

《共识与冲突（增订版）》是美国著名政治社会学家西摩·马丁·李普塞特的代表作之一，是当代政治社会学领域中的一部重要著作。作者紧紧围绕共识与冲突这个当代政治社会学的中心课题展开，论述了社会结构与社会变革之间的关系，各种不同意识形态相互融合和相互冲突的关系，社会生活中不同政治力量的整合与分裂之间的关系，保守主义与现代主义的关系，美国社会中的道德主义和暴力主义的关系等。《共识与冲突（增订版）》为我们了解当代西方社会的结构和运作，了解当代西方政治社会学中各派思潮的争论提供了丰富的研究资源。

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resources. Moreover, he contends that the causes of the great revolutions of Europe--the English and French revolutions--were similar to those of the great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan. The author observes that revolutions and rebellions have more often produced a crushing state orthodoxy than liberal institutions, leading to the conclusion that perhaps it is vain to expect revolution to bring democracy and economic progress. Instead, contends Goldstone, the path to these goals must begin with respect for individual liberty rather than authoritarian movements of 'national liberation.' Arguing that the threat of revolution is still with us, Goldstone urges us to heed the lessons of the past. He sees in the United States a repetition of the behavior patterns that have led to internal decay and international decline in the past, a situation calling for new leadership and careful attention to the balance between our consumption and our resources. Meticulously researched, forcefully argued, and strikingly original, Revolutions and Rebellions in the Early Modern World is a tour de force by a brilliant young scholar. It is a book that will surely engender much discussion and debate.

Although he is generally recognized as one of the leading analysts of contemporary social movements, few of Alberto Melucci’s writings have been published in English. Nomads of the Present makes available for the first time in English a coherent and representative sample of Melucci’s most important essays. This synthesis of his work on social movements is no mere collection of previously published essays: each chapter draws on the author’s work in several different places. Of the thirteen interrelated essays in this volume, only five have been published elsewhere in English. The book also features an interview with Alberto Melucci conducted by John Keane and Paul Mier.
Contents
1. Contemporary Social Movements (from "Social Movements in the 1980s," "The New Social Movements," and "Ten Hypotheses")
2. Towards a Theory of Collective Action (from "Getting Involved: Identity and Mobilization In Social Movements")
3. Identity and Collective Action (from "L'invenzione del presente")
4. Social Movements and Social Change (from "Movimenti di rivolta," "Lotte sociali e mutamento," and "L'invenzione del presente")
5. New Social Movements? (from "An End to Social Movements?," "The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements," and "Is There Anything New in New Social Movements?")
6. Individual Needs and System Constraints in Complex Societies (from "L'invenzione del presente" and "Altri codici")
7. The Invention of the Present (from "L'invenzione del presente" and "Altri codici")
8. The Symbolic Challenge: Culture or Politics? (from "Nazioni senza Stato," "Altri codici," and "The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements")
9. New Cultural Codes in Everyday Life (from "Everyday Life and Collective Action" and "Corpi estranei")
10. Movements as Messages (from "Altri codici" and "Sistema politico, partiti e movimenti sociali")
11. Action and Consciousness: Methods for the Analysis of Contemporary Movements (from "Altri codici")
12. Movements and the Political System (from "New Movements, Terrorism and the Political System" and "L'invenzione del presente")
13. The Democratization of Everyday Life (from "Social Movements and the Democratization of Everyday Life")
14. Social Movements in Complex Societies: An Interview with Alberto Melucci

在西方思想史和学术史上，对政治文化的研究源远流长。西方政治文化研究可分为三大谱系，即法国的社会学谱系、德国的文化哲学谱系以及美国的政治科学谱系。当代政治文化研究以美国的政治科学谱系为主流。1956年阿尔蒙德正式提出“政治文化”概念，1963年他又与维巴合作出版了《公民文化——五个国家的政治态度和民主制》，此为当代科学的政治文化研究，从1980年代起，政治文化研究经历了从“回归”到“复兴”进而走向繁荣的过程。复兴后的政治文化研究出现了前所未有的繁荣，一大批有影响、有重大原创性贡献的成果问世，本书为其中之一。

一个无与伦比的成就……这部著作让我们直接感受到葛兰西思想的繁复与多样。 ——理查德·贝拉米（《泰晤士报文学副刊》） 在葛兰西那里，马克思主义找到了无产阶级思想传统可能传承（只要社会有利于民主）的典范。 ——威廉·哈特利（《意大利季刊》） 安东尼奥·葛兰西的《狱中札记》一直跻身于西方政治思想著作最为显著者的行列。 ——特里·伊格尔顿

《政治社会学》是一本出色的新教科书，对当代政治社会学在核心概念方面的争论及其研究方法作了简要评介。书中介绍了国家与市民社会之间的权力关系，探讨了近年来发生的社会变革对上述关系的影响。它广泛涉及了全球化、新社会运动的兴起、新自由主义、公民权利、政治文化和政治参与等重要问题及热点问题，对吉登斯、贝克、埃齐奥尼等社会学名家的观点一一作了评介。

《社会中的国家：国家与社会如何相互改变与相互构成》采用“社会中的国家”的研究路径，从方法论、国家社会关系模型、国家权力与妥协、国家人类学、国家的稳定性、个体变迁、发展与变迁政治学、国家研究等方面，试图为“国家”提出一个有别于马克斯韦伯经典定义的新定义，并为政治学研究探索一种新的研究思路，即在国家、社会相互构成、相互改变的视角，研究两者共生、共同发展的辩证关系。