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The Oxford handbook of political science

Robert E. Goodin (Editor)
This one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of the main branches of contemporary political science. It will serve as the reference book for political scientists and those following their work for years to come
Print Book, English, 2009
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009
Aufsatzsammlung
xvii, 1291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780199562954, 9780199548460, 0199562954, 0199548463
301888783
pt. I. Introduction. The state of the discipline, the discipline of the state / Robert E. Goodin
pt. II. Political theory. Overview of political theory / John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips
Normative methodology / Russell Hardin
Theory in history : problems of context and narrative / J.G.A. Pocock
Justice after Rawls / Richard J. Arneson
Modernity and its critics / Jane Bennett
pt. III. Political institutions. Old institutionalisms : an overview / R.A.W. Rhodes
Elaborating the "new institutionalism" / James G. March and Johan P. Olsen
Comparative constitutions / Josep M. Colomer
Political parties in and out of legislatures / John H. Aldrich
The regulatory state? / John Braithwaite
pt. IV. Law and politics. Overview of law and politics : the study of law and politics / Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen and Gregory A. Caldeira
The judicialization of politics / Ran Hirschl
Judicial behavior / Jeffrey A. Segal
Law and society / Lynn Mather
Feminist theory and the law / Judith A. Baer
pt. V. Political behavior. Overview of political behavior : political behavior and citizen politics / Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Political psychology and choice / Diana C. Mutz
Voters and parties / Anne Wren and Kenneth M. McElwain
Comparative legislative behavior / Eric M. Uslaner and Thomas Zittel
Political intolerance in the context of democratic theory / James L. Gibson
pt. VI. Contextual political analysis. Overview of contextual political analysis : it depends / Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin
Political ontology / Colin Hay
The logic of appropriateness / James G. March and Johan P. Olsen
Why and how place matters / Goran Therborn
Why and how history matters / Charles Tilly
pt. VII. Comparative politics. Overview of comparative politics / Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes
War, trade, and state formation / Hendrik Spruyt
What causes democratization? / Barbara Geddes
Party systems / Herbert Kitschelt
Political clientelism / Susan C. Stokes
pt. VIII. International relations. Overview of international relations : between utopia and reality / Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal
The new liberalism / Andrew Moravcsik
The English School / Tim Dunne
From international relations to global society / Michael Barnett and Kathryn Sikkink
Big questions in the study of world politics / Robert O. Keohane
Six wishes for a more relevant discipline of international relations / Steve Smith
pt. IX. Political economy. Overview of political economy : the reach of political economy / Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman
Economic methods in positive political theory / David Austen-Smith
Capitalism and democracy / Torben Iversen
Politics, delegation, and bureaucracy / John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan
The evolutionary basis of collective action / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
pt. X. Public policy. Overview of public policy : the public and its policies / Robert E. Goodin, Martin Rein and Michael Moran
Social and cultural factors : constraining and enabling / Davis B. Bobrow
Policy dynamics / Eugene Bardach
Reframing problematic policies / Martin Rein
Reflections on policy analysis : putting it together again / Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor
pt. XI. Political methodology. Overview of political methodology : post- behavioral movements and trends / Henry E. Brady, David Collier and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Causation and explanation in social science / Henry E. Brady
Field experiments and natural experiments / Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green
The case study : what It Is and what It does / John Gerring
Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods / James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin