The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly
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'Spanning all of the major substantive areas and approaches in modern
political science, this blockbuster set is a must-have for scholars
and students alike. Each volume is crafted by a distinguished set of
editors who have assembled critical, comprehensive, essays to survey
accumulated knowledge and emerging issues in the study of politics.
These volumes will help to shape the discipline for many years to
come.' - Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and
Sociology, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Harvard University
'Judging from the editors, contributors, and topics covered, the
forthcoming Oxford Handbooks of Political Science will be a landmark
series...This is a series that not only university libraries, but
more specialized social science and political science libraries, will
want to have on their shelves' - Robert O. Keohane, Professor of
International Affairs, Princeton University
'This extraordinary series offers 'state of the art' assessments that
instruct, engage, and provoke. Both synoptic and directive, the fine
essays across these superbly edited volumes reflect the ambitions and
diversity of political science. No one who is immersed in the
discipline's controversies and possibilities should miss the
intellectual stimulation and critical appraisal these works so
powerfully provide.' - Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political
Science and History, Columbia University
'Under the general editorship of Robert E. Goodin, a large group of
intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of
political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's
owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the
Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we
know.' - Claus Offe, Professor of Political Science, Hertie School of
Governance, Berlin and Institute for Social Science, Humboldt
University, Berlin.
'This volume is an invaluable intervention in the Metoden Streit
agitating American social science. A detailed justification of
context, it presents an array of expert witnesses who have confronted
the methodological choices characteristic of different contextual
fieldsplace, time, culture, ideas, etc. The intervention is
judicious. While defending the particularity which context requires,
it does not surrender the possibility of regularities. This
methodological cornucopia, with its excellent, agenda setting
introduction, will provide authoritative and stimulating guidance to
the pathways of political science approaches.' - Susanne Hoeber
Rudolph, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political
Science Emerita, University of Chicago
Description
Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the
state of political science today
The only fully comprehensive ten-volume survey of the whole discipline
Not just a review of the discipline, but a major contribution to it
The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis is the largest
and most systematic attempt to date to map the increasingly popular
'contextualist' approaches to political analysis
Ambitious in scope, it contains sections on: Philosophy, Psychology,
Ideas, Culture, History, Place, Population, and Technology
Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors
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. Each volume focuses on a
particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy,
Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis,
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics,
Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political
Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship
of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished
international group of specialists in their respective fields. The
books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it.
The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone
working in political science and adjacent disciplines.
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.
Readership: Scholars and students of political science and adjacent
disciplines, especially philosophy, history, sociology, geography,
anthropology, demography, and psychology.
Contents
Part I. Introduction
1. It Depends , Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin
Part II. Philosophy Matters
2. Why and How Philosophy Matters , Philip Pettit
3. The Socialization of Epistemology , Louise Antony
4. Political Ontology , Colin Hay
5. Mind, Will, and Choice , James N. Druckman and Arthur Lupia
6. Theory, Fact, Logic , Rod Aya
Part III. Psychology Matters
7. Why and How Psychology Matters , Kathleen M. McGraw
8. Motivation and Emotion , James M. Jasper
9. Social Preferences, Homo Economicus , and Zoon Politikon , Samuel
Bowles and Herbert Gintis
10. Frames and Their Consequences , Francesca Polletta and M. Kai Ho
11. Memory, Individual and Collective , Aleida Assmann
Part IV. Ideas Matter
12. Why and How Ideas Matter , Dietrich Rueschemeyer
13. Detecting Ideas and Their Effects , Richard Price
14. How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas , Neta C. Crawford
15. How Ideas Affect Actions , Jennifer L. Hochschild
16. Mistaken Ideas and Their Effects , Lee Clarke
Part V. Culture Matters
17. Why And How Culture Matters , Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij,
and Richard J. Ellis
18. How to Detect Culture and its Effects , Pamela Ballinger
19. Race, Ethnicity, Religion , Courtney Jung
20. Language, Its Stakes and Its Effects , Susan Gal
21. The Idea of Political Culture , Paul Lichterman and Daniel Cefaï
Part VI. History Matters
22. Why and How History Matters , Charles Tilly
23. Historical Knowledge and Evidence , Roberto Franzosi
24. Historical Context and Path Dependence , James Mahoney and Daniel
Schensul
25. Does History Repeat? , Ruth Berins Collier and Sebastián Mazzuca
26. The Present as History , Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
Part VII. Place Matters
27. Why and How Place Matters , Göran Therborn
28. Detecting the Significance of Place , R. Bin Wong
29. Space, Place, and Time , Nigel J. Thrift
30. Spaces and Places as Sites and Objects of Politics , Javier Auyero
31. Uses of Local Knowledge , Don Kalb
Part VIII. Population Matters
32. Why and How Population Matters , David Levine
33. The Politics of Demography , Bruce Curtis
34. Politics and Mass Immigration , Gary P. Freeman
35. Population Change, Urbanization, and Political Consolidation ,
Jeffrey Herbst
36. Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle , David
I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel
Part IX. Technology Matters
37. Why and How Technology Matters , Wiebe E. Bijker
38. The Gendered Politics of Technology , Judy Wacjman
39. Military Technologies and Politics , Wim A. Smit
40. Technology as a Site and Object of Politics , Sheila Jasanoff
Part X. Old and New
41. Duchamp's Urinal: Who Says What's Rational When Things Get
Tough? , David E. Apter
42. The Behavioral Revolution and the Remaking of Comparative
Politics , Lucian Pye
Authors, editors, and contributors
Edited by
Robert E. Goodin, Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political
Theory, Australian National University
Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science,
Columbia University
