The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political science and beyond.

Zusatztext Goodin and Tilly have arrayed an outstanding group of fifty-one authors...This is a marvellous handbook into which a researcher might dip and delve. Most of the chapters provide the background needed by the curious, and some are likely to be informative to those already well versed in the area. Taken together, they offer an extensive and well-reasoned check-list of all the dangers and adventures awaiting scholars bent on explanation. The best build on cutting edge work in which the authors themselves engage. Klappentext The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This volume! The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis! sets out to synthesize and critique for the first timethose 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 analysisof 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. Zusammenfassung Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political science and beyond.

Autorentext
Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, having previously taught in the Government Department at the University of Essex. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory, empirical welfare-state studies and theoretical reflections on public policy.

Klappentext
The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This volume, 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.


Zusammenfassung
Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political science and beyond.

Inhalt
PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. It Depends; PART II. PHILOSOPHY MATTERS; 2. Why and How Philosophy Matters; 3. The Socialization of Epistemology; 4. Political Ontology; 5. Mind, Will, and Choice; 6. Theory, Fact, Logic; PART III. PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS; 7. Why and How Psychology Matters; 8. Motivation and Emotion; 9. Social Preferences, Homo Economicus, and Zoon Politikon; 10. Frames and Their Consequences; 11. Memory, Individual and Collective; PART IV. IDEAS MATTER; 12. Why and How Ideas Matter; 13. Detecting Ideas and Their Effects; 14. How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas; 15. How Ideas Affect Actions; 16. Mistaken Ideas and Their Effects; PART V. CULTURE MATTERS; 17. Why And How Culture Matters; 18. How to Detect Culture and its Effects; 19. Race, Ethnicity, Religion; 20. Language, Its Stakes and Its Effects; 21. The Idea of Political Culture; PART VI. HISTORY MATTERS; 22. Why and How History Matters; 23. Historical Knowledge and Evidence; 24. Historical Context and Path Dependence; 25. Does History Repeat?; 26. The Present as History; PART VII. PLACE MATTERS; 27. Why and How Place Matters; 28. Detecting the Significance of Place; 29. Space, Place, and Time; 30. Spaces and Places as Sites and Objects of Politics; 31. Uses of Local Knowledge; PART VIII. POPULATION MATTERS; 32. Why and How Population Matters; 33. The Politics of Demography; 34. Politics and Mass Immigration; 35. Population Change, Urbanization, and Political Consolidation; 36. Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle; PART IX. TECHNOLOGY MATTERS; 37. Why and How Technology Matters; 38. The Gendered Politics of Technology; 39. Military Technologies and Politics; 40. Technology as a Site and Object of Politics; PART X. OLD AND NEW; 41. Duchamp's Urinal: Who Says What's Rational When Things Get Tough?; 42. The Behavioral Revolution and the Remaking of Comparative Politics

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