MaxWeber（1864-1920）,generallyknownasafounderofmodemsocialscience,wasconcernedwithpoliticalaffairsthroughonthislife.Thetextsinthiseditionspanhiscareer,andincludehisearlyinaugurallecture‘TheNationStateandEcononficPolicy,’SuffrageandDemocracyinGemrany,’ParlimnentandGovernmentinGemlanyunderaNewPoliticalOrder,‘Socialism,‘TheProfessionandVocationofPolitics,andanexcerptfromhisessay‘TheSituationofConstitutionalDemocracyinRussia,aswellasothershorterwritings.TogethertheyillustratethedevelopmentofhisthinkingonthefateofGermanyandthenatureofpoliticsinthemodemwesternstateinanageofcultural‘disenchannnent.TheintroductiondiscussesthecentralthemesofWeberspoliticalthought,andachronology,notesandanalmotatedbibliographyplacehiminhispoliticalandintellectualcontext.