Assignments
On Civil Society:
- Arato, Andrew, "Civil Society against the State: Poland, 1980-81," Telos, No.47 (March 20, 1981), pp.23-47.
- Berman, Sheri, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic," World Politics, 49/3 (April 1997), pp.401-429.
- Bobbio, Norberto, "Civil Society," Chapter Two of his Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State Power [translated by Peter Kennealy] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), pp.22-43.
- Bobbio, Norberto, "Gramsci and the Conception of Civil Society," in Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Gramsci and Marxist Theory (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), pp.21-47.
- Bradley, Joseph, "Preface," to his Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp.ix-xiv.
- Bradley, Joseph, "Subjects into Citizens: Societies, Civil Society, and Autocracy in Tsarist Russia," The American Historical Review, 107/4 (October 2002), pp.1094-1123.
- Ehrenberg, John, "Civil Society and the State," Chapter Five of his Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999), pp.109-143.
- Fine, Robert, "Civil Society Theory, Enlightenment and Critique," Democratization, 4/1 (1997), pp.7-28.
- Geppert, Sabine, "Review of John Ehrenberg's Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999)," Theory and Society, 29/2 (April 2000), pp.275-285.
- Hirschman, Albert O., "Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?" Journal of Economic Literature, 20/4 (December 1982), pp.1463-1484.
- Jensen, Mark, "The Problem of Liberal Democratic Political Culture," Chapter 1 of his Civil Society in Liberal Democracy (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp.5-44.
- Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel, "Civil Society and its Discontents," Polish Sociological Review, No.154 (2006), pp.167-185.
- Kumar, Krishan, "Civil Society: An Inquiry into the Usefulness of a Historical Term," The British Journal of Sociology, 44/3 (September 1993), pp.375-395.
- Macpherson, Crawford Brough, "Editor's Introduction," to John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1980), pp.vii-xxi.
- Oz-Salzberger, Fania, "Introduction" to Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp.vii-xxv.
- Ozan, Ebru Deniz, "Sivil Toplum," in Gökhan Atılgan and E. Attila Aytekin (eds), Siyaset Bilimi: Kavramlar, Ä°deolojiler, Disiplinler Arası Ä°liÅŸkiler, dördüncü basım (Ä°stanbul: Yordam Kitap, 2014), pp.99-108.
- Showstack Sassoon, Anne, "Civil Society," in Tom Bottomore et al (eds), A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, second edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), pp.82-84.
- Varty, John, "Civic or Commercial? Adam Ferguson's Concept of Civil Society," Democratization, 4/1 (1997), pp.29-48.
On the Public Sphere:
- Eley, Geoff, "Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century," in Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, and Sherry B. Ortner (eds.), Culture / Power / History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp.297-335.
- Gestrich, Andreas, "The Public Sphere and the Habermas Debate," German History, 24/3 (July 2006), pp.413-430.
- Goode, Luke, "Excavations: The History of a Concept," Chapter One of his Jürgen Habermas: Democracy and the Public Sphere (London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005), pp.3-28.
- Habermas, Jürgen, "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964)," New German Critique, No.3 (Autumn 1974), pp.49-55.
- Habermas, Jürgen, "1990 Baskısına Önsöz," Preface to his Kamusallığın Yapısal DönüÅŸümü [translated by Tanıl Bora and Mithat Sancar] (Ä°stanbul: Ä°letiÅŸim Yayınları, 1997), pp.13-56.
- Habermas, Jürgen, "Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere," Chapter One of his The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society [translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence] (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991), pp.1-26.
- Habermas, Jürgen, "Social Structures of the Public Sphere," Chapter Two of his The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society [translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence] (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991), pp.27-56.
- Habermas, Jürgen, "Political Functions of the Public Sphere," Chapter Three of his The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society [translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence] (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991), pp.57-88.
- Hohendahl, Peter, "Jürgen Habermas: 'The Public Sphere' (1964)," New German Critique, No.3 (Autumn 1974), pp.45-48.
On the State:
- Anter, Andreas, Max Weber's Theory of the Modern State [translated by Keith Tribe] (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
- Block, Fred, Revising State Theory: Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987)
- Carnoy, Martin, The State and Political Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)
- Macpherson, Crawford Brough, "Do We Need a Theory of the State?" European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 18/2 (1977), pp.223-244.
- Mann, Michael, "States, Ancient and Modern," European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 18/2 (1977), pp.262-298.
- Offe, Claus, "Theses on the Theory of the State," New German Critique, No.6 (autumn 1975), pp.137-147.
On Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
- Althusser, Louis, "On Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards and Investigation)," in Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays [translated by Ben Brewster] (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1971), pp.127-186.
- Clark, Gordon L. and Michael Dear, State Apparatus: Structures and Language of Legitimacy (Boston, London and Sydney: Allen & Unwin, Inc., 1984)
- Eagleton, Terry, Ideology: An Introduction (London and New York: Verso, 1991)
- Mouffe, Chantal, "Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci," in Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Gramsci and Marxist Theory (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), pp.168-204.
On Legitimacy and the Legitimation Crisis
- Beetham, David, The Legitimation of Power (London: Macmillan, 1991)
- Borchert, Jens and Stephan Lessenich, "The 'Magic Triangle' of State, Capitalism and Democracy," Chapter 2 of their Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), pp.22-47.
- Cohen, Joshua, "Review of Claus Offe's Contradictions of the Welfare State," The Philosophical Review, 97/3 (July 1988), pp.435-440.
- Dasgupta, A. K., "Review of Jürgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis," India Quarterly, 32/4 (October-December 1976), pp.474-477.
- Fraser, Nancy, "Legitimation Crisis? On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism," Critical Historical Studies, 2/2 (Fall 2015), pp.157-189.
- Gillman, Joseph M., "Welfare Capitalism in the Capitalist Crisis," Science & Society, 22/2 (Spring 1958), pp.97-112.
- Habermas, Jürgen, Legitimation Crisis [translated by Thomas McCarthy] (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988)
- Habermas, Jürgen, "What Does a Crisis Mean Today? Legitimation Problems in Late Capitalism," Social Research, 40/4 (Winter 1973), pp.643-667.
- Hirschman, Albert O., "The Welfare State in Trouble: Systemic Crisis or Growing Pains?" The American Economic Review, 70/2 (May 1980), pp.113-116.
- Offe, Claus, "Civil Society and Social Order: Demarcating and Combining Market, State and Community," European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 41/1 (2000), pp.71-94.
- Offe, Claus, "Competitive Party Democracy and the Keynesian Welfare State: Factors of Stability and Disorganization," Policy Sciences, 15 (1983), pp.225-246.
- Offe, Claus, Contradictions of the Welfare State [edited by John Keane] (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1984)
- Palier, Bruno, "Social Policy Paradigms, Welfare State Reforms and the Crisis," Stato e mercato, No.97 (April 2013), pp.37-66.
- Plant, Raymond, "Jürgen Habermas and the Idea of Legitimation Crisis," European Journal of Political Research, 10 (1982), pp.341-352.
- Skocpol, Theda, "What Is Happening to Western Welfare States?" Contemporary Sociology, 14/3 (May 1985), pp.307-311.
- Wolin, Sheldon S., "Democracy and the Welfare State: The Political and Theoretical Connections between Staatsräson and Wohlfahrtsstaatsräson," Chapter 9 of his The Presence of the Past:Essays on the State and the Constitution (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), pp.151-179.
On the Fiscal Crisis of the State
- Block, Fred, "The Fiscal Crisis of the Capitalist State," Annual Review of Sociology, 7 (1981), pp.1-27.
- O'Connor, James, The Fiscal Crisis of the State [with a new introduction by the author] (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2002)
On Bureaucracy
- Adler, Paul S., "The Sociological Ambivalence of Bureaucracy: From Weber via Gouldner to Marx," Organization Science, 23/1 (January-February2012), pp.244-266.
- Beetham, David, Bureaucracy (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1987)
On the Iron Cage
On the Miliband-Poulantzas Debate about the Capitalist State
- Das, Raju J., "State Theories: A Critical Analysis," Science & Society, 60/1 (Spring 1996), pp.27-57.
- Jessop, Bob, "Dialogue of the Deaf: Some Reflections on the Poulantzas-Miliband Debate," in Paul Wetherly, Clyde W. Barrow and Peter Burnham (eds.), Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society: Essays on Ralph Miliband (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp.132-157.
- Jessop, Bob, "Recent Theories of the Capitalist State," Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1/4 (December 1977), pp.353-373.
- Miliband, Ralph, "Introduction," to his The State in Capitalist Society (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969), pp.1-22.
- Poulantzas, Nicos, "The Capitalist State," from Section II of his Political Power and Social Classes [translated by Timothy O'Hagan] (London: New Left Books, 1975), pp.123-141.
- Poulantzas, Nicos, "The Capitalist State: A Reply to Miliband and Laclau," in James Martin (ed.), The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law and the State (London and New York: Verso, 2008), pp.270-293.
- Poulantzas, Nicos, "Fundamental Characteristics of the Capitalist State," Section III of his Political Power and Social Classes [translated by Timothy O'Hagan] (London: New Left Books, 1975), pp.187-252.
- Poulantzas, Nicos, "The Problem of the Capitalist State," in Robin Blackburn (ed.), Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theory (New York: Vintage Books, 1973), pp.238-262.