Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest research in political sociology. It welcomes both theoretical and empirical studies that pay close attention to the dynamics of power, popular protest and social movements, as well as work that engages in debates surrounding globalisation, democracy and political economy.
Women’s Civil Society Organisations in Turkey: Reflections of Europeanisation and De-Europeanisation along the EU Journey
1st Edition
By Nazlı Kazanoğlu, Ayşe İdil Aybars
October 24, 2025
This book focuses on the de-Europeanization processes that Turkey is undergoing through an examination of women’s civil society organizations. Considering the lively women’s movement in the country and its diversity, it questions whether a transformation has occurred in the way that women’s civil ...
COVID-19 and the Left: The Tyranny of Fear
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Louisa Lange, Geoff Shullenberger
August 29, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation. Authoritarian measures such as lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the enforced wearing of facemasks, have led to a biopolitical disenfranchisement of human ...
Intimate Communities of Hate: Why Social Media Fuels Far-Right Extremism
1st Edition
By Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
June 27, 2025
Social media has fundamentally transformed political life, driving a surge in far-right extremism. In recent years, radical anti-democratic ideologies have entered into the political mainstream, fueled by energy from extreme online environments. But why do far-right extremist movements seem to ...
Democracies on the Move: Contributions to a Social Theory of Contemporary Democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Millefiorini
April 15, 2025
This book enquires into the state of health of contemporary democracies, offering a sociological reading of democracy to identify the causes of the current transformation of democracy from a social and cultural perspective. With attention to the social dynamics present in modern Western societies, ...
Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World
1st Edition
By Robert Shepherd
March 10, 2025
Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and...
Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Emergent Forms of Activism in an Era of Disillusionment
1st Edition
Edited
By Henri Onodera, Martta Kaskinen, Eija Ranta
January 23, 2025
Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in times of multiple crises. At the intersection of hope and disillusionment, the diverse and thought-provoking chapters investigate ...
Navigating Civil Resistance: Unravelling Mobilization Dynamics, Goals, and Strategies in Nepal
1st Edition
By Johannes Vüllers
December 23, 2024
While civil resistance campaigns are often initiated by a small number of organizations that receive broader social support, many groups are active during periods of campaigning without belonging to the main organizing group. Navigating Civil Resistance focuses on the mobilization dynamics of ...
Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance: Solidarity in a Changing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Stamatis Poulakidakos, Anastasia Veneti, Maria Rovisco
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on small-scale mobilisation and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives. Through a series of case studies drawn from the UK, Europe, India, and Latin America, it examines the dynamics and role of micro-acts of resistance, ...
Understanding Individual Commitment to Collective Action: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlos Ramírez
December 18, 2024
When speaking colloquially of political participation or civic action, one thinks, in the first instance, of groups and organizations such as political parties, social movements or various types of voluntary associations. The perspective of individuals is not the first thing that comes to mind when...
Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization: Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance
1st Edition
By Metin Koca
October 09, 2024
Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values? Bringing insights from Turkey to the study of democratization, this book argues that democracy may rather be about acknowledging the disagreement over values before negotiating over other concerns, such as rights, freedoms, ...
European Lobbying: An Occupational Field between Professionalism and Activism
1st Edition
By Christian Lahusen
August 26, 2024
Lobbying is an integral part of the political reality of the European Union and a highly competitive and dynamic field of interest groups. This book takes a systematic look at lobbyists in order to broaden our understanding of the staff entrusted with the responsibility of influencing European ...
The Class Gap in Protest Participation: The Comparative Case of Central Eastern and Western Europe
1st Edition
By Viktoriia Muliavka
August 01, 2024
The Class Gap in Protest Participation discusses a theoretically grounded empirical analysis of the relationship between class and protest involvement across Central Eastern and Western Europe. In recent decades, mass protests have surged in both frequency and scale, yet there remains a significant...