Elites are those with vastly disproportionate control over or access to a resource. We can
understand this as a position that a social actor occupies, or we can imagine such resources …

Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the
inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast
military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more …

Can feminists count on welfare states—or at least some aspects of these complex systems—
as resources in the struggle for gender equality? Gender analysts of “welfare states” …

It is now just over three decades since the initiation of the research and writing that came to
be called resource mobilization theory (RMT). Developed during a period of heightened …

We aim to show how collective emotions can be incorporated into the study of episodes of
political contention. In a critical vein, we systematically explore the weaknesses in extant …

Sociology is experiencing what can only be described as hyperdifferentiation of theories-
there are now many approaches competing for attention in the intellectual arena. From this …

Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an
overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of …

Fluid Iron is the first extended treatment of state formation in Southeast Asia from early to
contemporary times and the first book-length analysis of Western historical and …