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, or 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.
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"Taken as a whole, the volume captures both the excitement and the considerable challenges of all the cumulative turns in political analysis: cultural, historical, linguistic, and spatial with hints at new directions that beckon. While a few chapters function as guides to confronting the methods police, most function as invitations to diverse kinds of thoughtfulness and openness to the multi dimensional character of politics as it unfolds in space, time, and mind."--Contemporary Sociology
"Judging from the editors, contributors, and topics covered, the forthcoming Oxford Handbooks of Political Science will be a landmark series. I was especially impressed by the range of the volume on political institutions - including international institutions as well as a whole variety of domestic ones. The contributors to this and other volumes are first-rate. 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
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Robert E. Goodin is at Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at the Australian National University. Charles Tilly is at Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
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I would highly recommend this text to anyone pursuing an degree in the social sciences, as well as to anyone who is philosophically inclined with their politics. Firstly, as an Oxford Handbook the text is both generally organized and discursive; 3-6 essays are offered on each topic, and each differs in its angle (multifaceted perspectives for a multifaceted topic). Secondly, the text is a cross-section of non-"rational choice" scholarship; the economic model typically dominates political science textbooks, but "Contextual Political Analysis" allows just what its title advertises: a framework for formalizing the mechanisms of context. The "rational choice" school is great, but confronts huge hurdles when it comes to quantifying aesthetic values that play into political behavior (public understandings of justice, traditions of rhetoric, identity, etc.)
Though I might not read this to my kids as a bedtime story (which I am sure would put them to sleep quickly), it is a great piece of literature to gradually expand one's understanding of the field from.
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contextual political analysis, contemporary transitional administrations, constrained relativism, how ideas matter, nuclear war planning, spatial routines, causal homogeneity, pocketbook voting, reactive sequences, military technological developments, propensity accounts, weapons innovation, sociotechnical networks, military technological innovation, reflex emotions, framing efforts, social movement studies, technological frame, contentious politics, demographic knowledge, declaratory policy, strong reciprocity, trusteeship system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Constraints And Opportunities of Leadership in Post-communist Europe by Timothy Haughton on page 21, and Back Matter
- Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties by Charles Tilly in Back Matter
- What's Wrong With Terrorism by Robert E. Goodin in Back Matter
- What's Wrong With Terrorism by Robert E. Goodin in Back Matter
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