Základní literatura ke kurzu
Beetham, David: 1991. The Legitimation of Power. Palgrave Macmillan: Londýn, s. 42-63.
Coleman, Janet (ed.): The Individual in Political Theory and Practice. Clarendon Press: Oxford, s. 303-328.
Gill, Greame: 2003. The Nature and Development of the Modern State. Palgrave: Houndmills, s. 73-148.
Gordon, Scott: 1999. Controlling the State. Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA a Londýn, s. 19-59.
Held, David: 1984. Political Theory and the Modern State: Essays on State, Power and Democracy. Polity Press: Cambridge, s. 39-51.
Morris, Christopher W.: 2002. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, s. 172-287.
Nelson, Brian R.: 2006. The Making of the Modern State. A Theoretical Evolution. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, s. 6-53.
Reinhard, Wolfgang (ed.): 1996. Power Elites and State Building. Clarendon Press: Oxford, s. 139-147,222-234.
Roeder, Philip G.: 2007. Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism. Princeton University Press: Princeton, s. 3-41.
Sørensen, Georg: 2004. The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retreat. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, s. 23-45.
Sørensen, Georg: 2005. Stát a mezinárodní vztahy. Portál: Praha.
Thompson, John B.: 1990. Ideology and Modern Culture. Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication. Stanford University Press: Stanford, s.28-121.
Rozšiřující literatura
Beetham, David: 1991. The Legitimation of Power. Palgrave Macmillan: Londýn.
Bellamy, Richard: 2007. Political Constitutionalism. A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Coleman, Janet (ed.): The Individual in Political Theory and Practice. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Čermák, Vladimír: 1997. Otázka demokracie. 3) Společnost a stát. Makladatelství Olomouc: Olomouc.
Eagleton, Terry: 2007. Ideology: An Introduction (New and Updated Edition). Verso: Londýn.
Gellner, Ernest: 1987. Culture, Identity, and Politics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Gill, Greame: 2003. The Nature and Development of the Modern State. Palgrave: Houndmills.
Gordon, Scott: 1999. Controlling the State. Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA a Londýn.
Hall, John A.: Coercion and consent: Studies on the Modern State. Polity Press: Cambridge.
Hay, Colin – Lister, Michael – Marsh, David (eds.): 2006. The State: Theories and Issues. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
Held, David: 1984. Political Theory and the Modern State: Essays on State, Power and Democracy. Polity Press: Cambridge.
Hoffman, John: 2004. Citizenship Beyond the State. Sage: Londýn.
Lukes, Steven: 2005. Power: A Radical View (2nd Edition). Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
Marinetto, Michael: 2007. Social Theory, the State and Modern Society: The State in Contemporary Social Thought. Open University Press: Maidenhead.
Morris, Christopher W.: 2002. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Nelson, Brian R.: 2006. The Making of the Modern State. A Theoretical Evolution. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills.
Pierson, Christopher: 2004. The Modern State (2nd Edition). Routledge: Londýn.
Reinhard, Wolfgang (ed.): 1996. Power Elites and State Building. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
Říchová, Blanka: 2000. Přehled moderních politologických teorií. Empiricko-analytický přístup v soudobé politické vědě. Portál: Praha.
Šaradín, Pavel: 2001. Historické proměny pojmu ideologie. CDK: Brno.
Tilly, Charles: 1992. Coercion, Capital and European States AD 990-1992. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford and Cambridge, MA.
Doporučená literatura
Bourdieu, Pierre: 2003. Language and Symbolic Power (7th Printing). Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
Clegg, Stewart R.: 1989. Frameworks of Power. Sage: Londýn, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi.
Dryzek, John S. – Honig, Bonnie – Phillips, Anne (eds.): 2006. The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Fairclough, Norman: 2001. Language and Power (2nd Edition). Pearson Education: Harlow.
Fukuyama, Francis: 2004. Budování státu podle Fukuyamy. Alfa Publishing: Praha.
Hall, John A.: 2002. The State: Critical Concepts I, II, III. Routledge: London.
Hansen, Mogens Herman: 2006. Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Chandhoke, Neera: 1995. State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory. Sage: New Delhi.
Inglehart, Ronald: 1990. Culture Shift in Advances Industrial Society. Princeton University Press: Princeton.
Inglehart, Ronald: 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization. Princeton University Press: Princeton.
Keane, John: 1984. Public Life and Late Capitalism. Toward a Socialist Theory of Democracy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Keynes, John Maynard: 2011 [1936]. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. Martino Publishing: Mansfield Centre.
Martuccelli, Danilo: 2008. Sociologie modernity: Itinerář 20. století. CDK: Brno.
Morgan, Glyn: 2005. The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration. Princeton University Press: Princeton.
Müller, Karel B.: 2008. Politická sociologie. Politika a identita v proměnách modernity. Portál: Praha.
Nash, Kate – Scott, Alan (eds.): 2004. The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Blackwell Publishing: Malden, MA a Oxford.
Pierson, Christopher: 2007. Beyond the Welfare State. The New Political Economy of Welfare. Third Edition. The Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA.
Rokkan, Stein: 1999. State Formation, Nation-building, and Mass Politics in Europe. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Skinner, Quentin – Strath, Bo (eds.): 2003. States and Citizen: History, Theory, Prospects. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Smith, Mark: 2000. Rethinking State Theory. Routledge: Londýn a New York.
Sørensen, Georg: 2004. The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retreat. Palgrave Macmillan: New York.
Tilly, Charles: 1995. European Revolutions, 1492-1992. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford and Cambridge, MA.