See the Concepts and Terminology page, a subsection of Nuts & Bolts.

Selected Bibliography of Specific Concepts:

Agency - Exchange

Agency

Sen, Amartya. 1985. "Freedom and Agency." The Journal of Philosophy. Vol. LXXXII (4): 203-221.

Anarchism

Pennock, J. Roland and John W. Chapman (eds.) 1978. Anarchism. New York: New York University Press (Nomos 19).

Atrocity

Jacob, Phillip E. 1955. "A Multi-Dimensional Classification of Atrocity Stories." In Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Morris Rosenberg (eds.) The Language of Social Research: A Reader in the Methodology of Social Research. Glencoe: The Free Press: 54-57.

Authoritarian Regime

Linz, Juan J. 1964. "An Authoritarian Regime: Spain." In Erik Allardt and Yrjo Littunen (eds.) Cleavages, Ideologies, and Party Systems: Contributions to Comparative Political Sociology. Transactions of the Westermarck Society, 10: 291-342.

Linz, Juan J. 1975. "Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes." In Fred I. Greenstein and Nelson W. Polsby (eds.) Handbook of Political Science, Vol. 3 Macropolitical Theory. Reading: Addison-Wesley.

Authority

Friedrich, Carl J. 1958. Authority. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (Nomos 1).

Lincoln, Bruce Authority: Construction and Corrosion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pennock, J. Roland and John W. Chapman (eds.). Authority Revisited. New York: New York University Press (Nomos 29).

Balance of Power

Haas, Ernst. 1953. "The Balance of Power: Prescription, Concept, or Propaganda?" World Politics. Vol. 5(4): 442-447.

Bureaucracy

Beetham, David. 1987.Bureaucracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Capacity

Jackman, Robert W. 1993.Power Without Force: The Political Capacity of Nation-States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Citizenship

Barbalet, J.M. 1988. Citizenship: Rights, Struggles, and Class Inequality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Biener, Ronald (ed.). 1995. Theorizing Citizenship. Albany: State University Press.

Halisis, C.R.D., Paul J. Kaiser, and Stephen N. Ndegwa. 1998. "Guest Editors' Introduction: The Multiple Meanings of Citizenship -- Rights, Idenity, and Social Justice in Africa." Africa Today Vol. 45: 337-350.

Jackman, Robert W. 1993.Power Without Force: The Political Capacity of Nation-States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Marshall, T.H. 1963.Citizenship and Social Class. London: Heinemann.

Civil Society

Callaghy, Thomas. 1994. "Civil Society, Democracy, and Economic Change in Africa: A Dissenting Opinion About Resurgent Societies" in John W. Harbeson, Donal Rothchild, Naomi Chazan (eds.), Civil Society and the State in Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner: 231-254.

Change, Organizational

Haas, Ernst B. 1990. When Knowledge is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organizations. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Class

Scase, Richard. 1992.Class. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Coercion

Pennock, J. Roland and John W. Chapman (eds.). 1972. Coercion. New York: Aldine-Atherton Press.

Commons, The

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science. Vol. 162 (December):1243-1248.

Community

Friedrich, Carl J. 1959.Community. New York: The Liberal Arts Press (Nomos 2).

Compromise

Pennock, J. Roland and John W. Chapman (eds.). 1979. Compromise in Ethics, Law, and Politics. New York: New York University Press (Nomos 21).

Consensus

Graham, George J., Jr. 1984. "Consensus" in Giovanni Sartori (ed.) Social Science Concepts: A Systemic Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Corporatism

Williamson, Peter. 1985. Varieties of Corporatism: A Conceptual Discussion. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Crises

O'Donnel, Guillermo. 1988. "On Crises". in Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in Comparative Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press: 15-31.

Grindle, Merilee S. 1996. Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Critical Junctures

Collier, Ruth Berins and David Collier. 1991. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Culture

Jepperson, Ronald L., and Ann Swidler. 1994. "What Properties of Culture Should We Measure?" Poetics. Vol. 22: 359-371.

Culture, Political

Patrick, Glenda M. 1984. "Political Culture" in Giovanni Sartori (ed.) Social Science Concepts: A Systemic Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Decentralization

Leonard, David K. 1982. "Modes of Decentralization" in David K. Leonard and Dale Rogers Marshall (eds.). Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor: Decentralization and Organizational Linkages. University of California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies, Research Series No. 49.

Democracy

Lively, Jack. 1975 Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Schmitter, Philippe and Terry Lynn Karl. 1991. "What Democracy Is…and Is Not." Journal of Democracy. Vol. 2 (3): 75-88.

Beetham, David (ed.). 1994 Defining and Measuring Democracy. Vol. 36, Sage Modern Politics Series. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Development

Crush, Jonathon (ed.). 1995. Power of Development. London: Routledge, 1995.

Evans, Peter. 1988. "Studying Development Since the Sixties: The Emergence of a New Comparative Political Economy." Theory and Society. Vol. 17: 713-745.

Leys, Colin. 1996. The Rise & Fall of Development Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Riggs, Fred W. 1984. "Development" in Giovanni Sartori (ed.) Social Science Concepts: A Systemic Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Sachs, Wolfgang (ed.). 1992. The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. London: Zed Books.

Elite

Zannoni, Paolo. 1978. "The Concept of Elite." European Journal of Political Research. Vol. 6: 1-30.

Entitlement

Sen, Amartya. 1987. Hunger and Entitlements. Helsinki: United Nations University.

Equality

Flathman, Richard. E. (ed.). 1973. "Equality." Part 5 in Concepts in Social and Political Philosophy. New York: Macmillan: 324-383.

Equilibrium

Russett, Cynthia 1966. The Concept of Equilibrium in American Social Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Ethics

Bauman, Zygmunt. 1993. Postmodern Ethics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Pennock, J. Roland and John W. Chapman (eds.). 1982. Ethics, Economics, and the Law. New York: New York University Press. (Nomos 24).

Ethnicity

Jackson, Robert H. 1984. "Ethnicity" in Giovanni Sartori (ed.), Social Science Concepts: A Systematic Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Shapiro, Ian and Will Kymlicka. 1997. Ethnicity and Group Rights. New York: New York University Press (Nomos 39).

Young,. Crawford and Thomas Turner. 1985. "The Ethnic Dimension of Civil Society," in The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press: 138-140.

Exchange

Davis, John. 1992. Exchange. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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