The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis

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Title:

The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis

Author:

Goodin, Robert E.

ISBN:

9780199548446

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008, c2006.

Physical Description:

xii, 869 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Oxford handbooks of political science

Oxford handbooks of political science.

General Note:

Originally published in hardcover in 2006.

Contents:

It depends / Charles Tilly & Robert E. Goodin -- Why and how philosophy matters / Philip Pettit -- The socialization of epistemology / Louise Antony -- Political ontology / Colin Hay -- Mind, will, and choice / James N. Druckman & Arthur Lupia -- Theory, fact, and logic / Rod Aya -- Why and how psychology matters / Kathleen M. McGraw -- Motivation and emotion / James M. Jasper -- Social preferences, Homo economicus, and zoon politikon / Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis -- Frames and their consequences / Francesca Polletta & M. Kai Ho -- Memory, individual and collective / Aleida Assmann -- Why and how ideas matter / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- Detecting ideas and their effects / Richard Price -- How previous ideas affect later ideas / Neta C. Crawford -- How ideas affect actions / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- Mistaken ideas and their effects / Lee Clarke -- Why and how culture matters / Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij & Richard J. Ellis -- How to detect culture and its effects / Pamela Ballinger -- Race, ethnicity, religion / Courtney Jung -- Language, its stakes, and its effects / Susan Gal -- The idea of political culture / Paul Lichterman & Daniel Cefai -- Why and how history matters / Charles Tilly -- Historical knowledge and evidence / Roberto Franzosi -- Historical context and path dependence / James Mahoney & Daniel Schensul -- Does history repeat? / Ruth Berins Collier & Sebastin Mazzuca -- The present as history / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- Why and how place matters / Goran Therborn -- Detecting the significance of place / R. Bin Wong -- Space, place, and time / Nigel J. Thrift -- Spaces and places as sites and objects of politics / Javier Auyero -- Uses of local knowledge / Don Kalb -- Why and how population matters / David Levine -- The politics of demography / Bruce Curtis -- Politics and mass immigration / Gary P. Freeman -- Population change, urbanization, and political consolidation / Jeffrey Herbst -- Population composition as an object of political struggle / David I. Kertzer & Dominique Arel -- Why and how technology matters / Wiebe E. Bijker -- The gender politics of technology / Judy Wajcman -- Military technologies and politics / Wim A. Smit -- Technology as a site and object of politics / Sheila Jasanoff -- Duchamp's urinal : who says what's rational when things get tough? / David E. Apter -- The behavioral revolution and the remaking of comparative politics / Lucian Pye.

Subject Term:

Political science -- Methodology.

Political science -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Goodin, Robert E.

Tilly, Charles.

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Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in the volume has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-scale quantitative modelling or explanations based on abstract, general, universal laws of human behavior. It shows that 'context matters' in a great many ways: philosophical context matters; psychological context matters; cultural and historical contexts matter; place, population, and technology all matter. By showcasing scholars who specialize in the analysis of all these contexts side-by-side, The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis shows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account.