Books in the Social Science Classics series

Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach

Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems

The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark, unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen again.

Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach

This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology