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This article conducts an analysis of public meetings in Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The profound changes in frequency and character, the enormous increase of public meetings and the sharp decline in the relative frequency of violent gatherings, serve as an indicator of the expansion of the public sphere and its capacity to shape the social process. The article explains the rise of the public meeting and why it became so central to British political life during the nineteenth century through four intertwined changes: the development of British capitalism, the growing importance of Parliament, the multiplied opportunities for political entrepreneurs, and the effect of public contention itself.

AS EUROPEANS UNCONSCIOUSLY SUBVERT THE STATE IN THE VERY ACT OF AFFIRMING ITS DESIRABILITY, COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGISTS ARE UNWITTINGLY PERIPHERALIZING THE STATE WHILE ASSERTING ITS CENTRALITY. MANY INDICATORS POINT BEYOND THE CURRENT SPATE OF NATIONALISMS TOWARD A GENERAL COLLAPSE OF THE LARGE, CONSOLIDATED, CENTRALIZED, SHARPLY BOUNDED STATE THAT BEGAN TO DOMINATE EUROPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND BECAME THE MODEL FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE MYTH OF THE CURTURALLY HOMOGENOUS NATION-STATE.

Considers how comparative-historical sociologists should seek to respond to recent changes in conceptions and formation of the nation state. Suggests that scholars should search for precise causal mechanisms, and looks for connections among groups, organisations, localities, and events rather than in standard sequences or the logic of social systems. (RSM)

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE POLITICS OF THE NEW INEQUALITY. IT STATES THAT THE GROWING GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR FAMILIES IS NEITHER THE RESULT NOR THE CAUSE OF THE NEW RIGHT. ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IS THE CULPRIT. IT ASSERTS THAT THE PATTERNS OF THE NEW INEQUALITY SUGGEST THAT ITS MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL IMPACT WILL RESULT FROM THE GROWING RACIAL DIVIDE IN FAMILY INCOMES AND CHANGING ECONOMIC ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE AND FAMILY