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.
The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy
1st Edition
By Jeremy J. Holland
June 08, 2026
This book explores the political worldviews of progressive American social movements and how they play an increasingly important role in defining social problems, setting the national political agenda, and offering viable policy solutions. Arguing that the liberal consensus that historically held ...
Volunteering, Migration and Citizenship: The Role of Volunteering in Constructing Inclusive Societies
1st Edition
By Maurizio Artero
March 09, 2026
Volunteering, Migration and Citizenship brings together the fields of migration studies and volunteering research to juxtapose the study of volunteering by migrants with the study of volunteering for migrants. While in the social sciences volunteering has often been interpreted as the result of a ...
Political Trust and Distrust in Governance: A Comparative Analysis in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Lahusen
March 04, 2026
This edited volume provides new, nuanced answers to questions concerning the complex nature of political trust and distrust, exploring the role they play within democratic governance and the implications that varying degrees of trust can have on relations between citizens and institutions. In ...
Terrorism as Moralistic Violence: An Integrated Theory of Terrorism’s Lethal Nature
1st Edition
By Joseph H. Michalski
January 22, 2026
This book develops and applies the theory of lethal moralism to explain the different types and growth of terrorism over the last half-century, from 1970 to 2020. Drawing on data from the Global Terrorism Database, supplemented with original research differentiating groups based on their ...
The Class Gap in Protest Participation: The Comparative Case of Central Eastern and Western Europe
1st Edition
By Viktoriia Muliavka
October 27, 2025
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...
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-Europeanisation process that Turkey is undergoing through an examination of women’s civil society organisations. 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 ...