{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.023238380809595203, 'fraction_numerical': 0.015742128935532233, 'mean_word_length': 5.209302325581396, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Comparative Political Sociology

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY has come of age during the past fifteen years. At the beginning of this period, it was a peripheral and somewhat marginal field that attracted little more attention than the sociology of knowledge. Then came the political upheavals of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the &dquo;rediscovery&dquo; of Marxian theory and the emergence of the state as a unit of analysis in sociology. In 1973, the field acquired its own journal (Journal of Political and Military Sociology), and in the 1975-76 ASA Directory of Members, over 750 persons listed political sociology as one of their two principal specialities. Most importantly, the amount of research, teaching, and publication in political sociology has increased almost exponentially during the past fifteen years. Rapidly growing areas of science are rarely neatly delineated and organized, and political sociology is no exception to that rule. The underlying purpose of this paper, therefore, is to review some of the most significant recent research in this area and arrange it in a meaningful fashion. This literature review is not intended to be comprehensive-that would be virtually impossible, given the undefined boundaries of political sociology-but rather seeks to illustrate the kinds of research that have been conducted.