Societies, Corporations and the Nation State The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 7

Erwin K. Scheuch (1928) is Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of Cologne (Germany). He was lecturer at Columbia University, Berkeley, Harvard and had guest professorships at Princeton, in Auckland, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, China and Manchuria. He was the founder and director of the Kölner Institut für Angewandte Sozialforschung (Institute for Comparative Social Research), one of the major sociological institutes in Germany. From 1989 until 1997 he was vice-president and later president of the International Institute of Sociology. Professor Scheuch is a member of many academic organizations and wrote dozens of books about technologies of empirical research, mass communications, political sociology and social issues. His latest book was about the donation crisis in German political parties (Rowohlt 2000).

David Sciulli is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University and the author of Corporate Power in Civil Society: An Application of Societal Constitutionalism (NYU Press, 2001). His earlier publications include Corporations vs. Court: Private Power, Public Interests (Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1999) and Theory of Societal Constitutionalism: Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1992).