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In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. Shining the light on waiting permits a far superior understanding of order, first come-first serve, and how society organizes itself around taking turns. Waiting gets at our ability or inability to pause and consider others.

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, "nearhumans," and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?

From the streets to the state : a critical introduction / Paul Christopher Gray -- Democratizing the party and the state : transcending the limits of the left / Leo Panitch -- Building "parties of a new type" : a comparative analysis of new radical left parties In Western Europe / Xavier Lafrance and Catarina Príncipe -- Watching over the right to turn left : the limits of state autonomy in pink tide Venezuela and Ecuador / Thomas Chiasson-LeBel -- Casting shadows : Chokwe Lumumba and the struggle for racial justice and economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi / Kali Akuno -- The radical democracy of the People's Democratic Party : transforming the Turkish state / Erdem Yörük -- Toward a radical politics of rights : lessons about legal leveraging and its limitations / Michael McCann and George I. Lovell -- Market failures, failing states : challenges for democratization projects / Greg Albo -- Forging a "social knowledge economy" : transformative collaborations between radical left governments, state workers, and solidarity economies / Hilary Wainwright -- Femocratic administration and the politics of transformation / Tammy Findlay -- Beyond service, beyond coercion? : prisoner co-ops and the path to democratic administration / Greg McElligott

Walter Bagehot's anatomy of The English Constitution is a classic of English political writing. In this new Cambridge Texts edition it appears for the first time in its original (1867) book version, with Bagehot's original conclusion, and the substantial introduction written for the second edition of 1872. Paul Smith's introduction places Bagehot's views in the context of contemporary events and prevalent views of the working of the constitution, indicating their relation to his developing ideas on the anthropological and sociological springs of authority. He assesses the accuracy of Bagehot's account of parliamentary government in operation, and the strength of Bagehot's analysis of the difficulties faced by British liberalism in coming to terms with the approach of democracy. All the usual student-friendly features of the Cambridge Texts series are present, including a select bibliography and brief biographies of key figures, and annotation which explains some of Bagehot's more arcane contemporary allusions