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These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western andEastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26836-8

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The concept of democracy in Weber's political sociology

Breuer Stefan

1-13

Democratization in world-historical perspective

Collins Randall

14-31

State formation and the disciplined individual in Weber's historical sociology

Axtmann Roland

32-46

Max Weber and plebiscitary democracy

Eliaeson Sven

47-60

The nation-state, the protestant ethic and modernization

Whimster Sam

61-78

From Weber's political sociology to contemporary liberal democracy

Schroeder Ralph

79-92

Tocqueville and Weber on the sociological origins of citizenship

Kalberg Stephen

93-112

Max Weber and European integration

Levy Carl

113-128

Back to Mitteleuropa?

129-144

Soviet communism and weberian sociology

Breuer Stefan

145-165

Western impact and Asian values in Japan's modernization

Schwentker Wolfgang

166-181

Reframing orientalism

Nafissi Mohammad

182-201