Paul Quentin Hirst was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck College, London, in 1985 and held the post until his death from a stroke and brain haemorrhage.
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Associative democracy
2001
ISBN 9781136338687
From Statism to Pluralism Democracy, Civil Society and Global Politics
2012
ISBN 9780415516136
Marxism and Historical Writing (Routledge Revivals)
2009
ISBN 9781136999079
War and Power in the Twenty-First Century
2015
ISBN 9780745697574