Reference Books and Articles for Assessment

Books/Articles (2020/2021)

1. de Nardis, F. (2020) Understanding Politics and Society. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Blokker, P. and Anselmi, M. (Eds.) (2020) Multiple Populisms. Italy as Democracy’s Mirror. London: Routledge.
3. De Blasio, E. and Sorice, M. (2019) E-Democracy and Digital Activism: From Divergent Paths Toward a New Frame. International Journal of Communication, 13: 5715-5733
4. Other articles provided by the teachers

Not attending students are requested to replace the articles (item n. 4: please see: Teaching and Assessment) with the suggested book.

Books at points 1 and 2 are also available as ebooks (Kindle, etc.); the article at point 3 is free for downloading (click the link). The book at point 4 is free for downloading (click the link)

Books/Articles (2019/2020)

1. Clemens, E. S. (2016) What is Political Sociology? Cambridge: Polity.
2. Wilson, J. and Swyngedouw E. (2015) The Post-Political and Its Discontents. Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
3. De Blasio, E. and Sorice, M. (2018) Populism among technology, e-democracy and the depoliticisation process. Revista Internacional de Sociologìa, 76(4), e109.
4. della Porta, D., Fernandez, J., Kouki, H. and Mosca, L. (2017) Movement Parties Against Austerity. Cambridge: Polity

Not attending students are requested to study the third book (item n. 4: please see: Teaching and Assessment)

Basic references

• Amenta, E., Nash, K and Scott, A. (2016) The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Balibar, E. (2015) Citizenship. Cambridge: Polity.
• Boudreau, J.A. (2017) Global Urban Politics. Cambridge: Polity.
• Cini, L. and Caruso, L. (2020) Rethinking the Link Between Structure and Collective Action. Capitalism, Politics, and the Theory of Social Movements. Critical Sociology, april 2020
• Coleman, S. and Shane, P. M. (eds.) (2011) Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.
• Crouch, C. (2011) The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. Cambridge: Polity.
• Crouch, C. (2019) The Globalization Backlash. London: Polity.
• Dalton, R. J., Farrell, D. M. and McAllister, I. (2011) Political Parties & Democratic Linkage. How Parties Organizes Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• De Blasio, E. and Sorice, M. (2018) Populism between direct democracy and the technological myth. Palgrave Communications, 4, 15.
• De Blasio, E. and Sorice, M. (2018) Populism among technology, e-democracy and the depoliticisation process. Revista Internacional de Sociologìa, 76(4), e109.
• De Blasio, E. and Sorice, M. (2019) E-Democracy and Digital Activism: From Divergent Paths Toward a New Frame. International Journal of Communication, 13: 5715-5733
• De Blasio, E. and Sorice, M. (2020) Spaces of Struggle: Socialism and Neoliberalism With a Human Face Among Digital Parties and Online Movements in Europe. tripleC – Communication, Capitalism and Critique, Vol. 18, n. 1
• de Leon, C. (2014) Party & Society. Reconstructing a Sociology of Democratic Party Politics. Cambridge: Polity.
• della Porta, D. (2013) Can Democracy Be Saved? Cambridge: Polity Press.
• della Porta, D. e Diani, M. (2006) Social Movements. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
• della Porta, D., Fernandez, J., Kouki, H. and Mosca, L. (2017) Movement Parties Against Austerity. Cambridge: Polity.
• Drake, M. S. (2010) Political Sociology for a Globalizing World. Cambridge: Polity.
• Dyer-Whiteford, N., Kjøsen, A. M. and Steinhoff, J. (2019) Inhuman Power. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism. London: Pluto Press.
• Fawcett, P., Flinders, M., Hay, C. and Wood, M. (2017) Anti-Politics, Depoliticization, and Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Forgacs, D., ed. (1999) The Antonio Gramsci Reader. Selected Writings 1916-1935 (Introduction by Eric Hobsbawm). London: Lawrence and Wishart.
• Frezzo, M. (2015) The Sociology of Human Rights. Cambridge: Polity.
• Fuchs, C. (2016) Critical Theory of Communication. London: University of Westminster Press.
• Fuchs, C. (2017) Social Media. A Critical Introduction. London: Sage.
• Fuchs, C. (2019) Nationalism on the Internet. Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News. London: Routledge.
• Fuchs, C. (2020) Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism. tripleC – Communication Capitalism and Critique, Vol. 1, n. 1
• Geissel, B. and Joas, M. (2013) Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe. Berlin-Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
• Gerbaudo, P. (2019) The Digital Party. Political Organisation and Online Democracy. London: Pluto Press.
• Hall, S. (2017) Selected Political Writings. The Great Moving Right Show and other essays. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
• Hidalgo Tenorio, E., Benitz-Castro, M. A. and De Cesare, F. (Eds.) (2019) Populist Discourse. Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics. London: Routledge.
• Jasper, J. M. (2014) Protest. A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements. Cambridge: Polity.
• Kriesi, H. and Pappas, T. S., eds. (2015) European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession. Colchester: ECPR Press.
• Landman, T. (2013) Human Rights and Democracy. The Precarious Triumph of Ideals. London: Bloomsbury.
• Littler, J. (2017) Against Meritocracy. Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility. London: Routledge.
• Malesevic, S. (2013) Nation-States and Nationalism. Cambridge: Polity.
• Miller, T. and Kraidy, M. L. (2016) Global Media Studies. Cambridge: Polity.
• Morelock, J. (2018) Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism. London: University of Westminster Press.
• Morlino, L. (2011) Changes for Democracy. Actors, Structures, Processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mudde, C, and Rovira Kaltwasser, C., eds. (2012) Populism in Europe and the Americas. Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Nash, K. (2010) Contemporary Political Sociology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Pauwels, T. (2014) Populism in Western Europe. Comparing Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. London: Routledge.
• Pettitt, R. T. (2014) Contemporary Party Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Pilkington, H. and Pollock, G. eds. (2015) Radical Futures? Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
• Rush, M. (1992) Politics and Society. An Introduction to Political Sociology. London: Routledge.
• Sorice, M. (2019) Between Direct Representation and Participatory Democracy. Ispi Online, april 2019
• Stanbridge, K. and Ramos, H. (2012) Seeing Politics Differently. A Brief Introduction to Political Sociology. Don Mills (Canada): Oxford University Press.
• Tormey, S. (2015) The end of representative politics. Cambridge: Polity.
• Wilson, J. and Swyngedouw E. (2015) The Post-Political and Its Discontents. Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.