The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

by Goodin, Robert E.; Tilly, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780199270439
• ISBN10: 0199270430
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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, PoliticalEconomy, 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 distinguishedinternational 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. Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental andpost-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recentpast, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. It Depends	3	(32)
CHARLES TILLY & ROBERT E. GOODIN
PART II PHILOSOPHY MATTERS
2. Why and How Philosophy Matters	35	(23)
PHILIP PETTIT
3. The Socialization of Epistemology	58	(20)
LOUISE ANTONY
4. Political Ontology	78	(19)
COLIN HAY
5. Mind, Will, and Choice	97	(17)
JAMES N. DRUCKMAN & ARTHUR LUPIA
6. Theory, Fact, and Logic	114	(17)
ROD AYA
PART III PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS
7. Why and How Psychology Matters	131	(26)
KATHLEEN M. MCGRAW
8. Motivation and Emotion	157	(15)
JAMES M. JASPER
9. Social Preferences, Homo Economicus, and Zoon Politikon	172	(15)
SAMUEL BOWLES & HERBERT GINTIS
10. Frames and Their Consequences	187	(23)
FRANCESCA POLLETTA & M. KAI HO
11 Memory, Individual and Collective	210	(17)
ALEIDA ASSMANN
PART IV IDEAS MATTER
12. Why and How Ideas Matter	227	(25)
DIETRICH RUESCHEMEYER
13. Detecting Ideas and Their Effects	252	(14)
RICHARD PRICE
14. How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas	266	(18)
NETA C. CRAWFORD
15. How Ideas Affect Actions	284	(13)
JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD
16. Mistaken Ideas and Their Effects	297	(22)
LEE CLARKE
PART V CULTURE MATTERS
17. Why and How Culture Matters	319	(22)
MICHAEL THOMPSON, MARCO VERWEIJ & RICHARD J. ELLIS
18. How to Detect Culture and Its Effects	341	(19)
PAMELA BALLINGER
19. Race, Ethnicity, Religion	360	(16)
COURTNEY JUNG
20. Language, Its Stakes, and Its Effects	376	(16)
SUSAN GAL
21. The Idea of Political Culture	392	(25)
PAUL LICHTERMAN & DANIEL CEFAI
PART VI HISTORY MATTERS
22. Why and How History Matters	417	(21)
CHARLES TILLY
23. Historical Knowledge and Evidence	438	(16)
ROBERTO FRANZOSI
24. Historical Context and Path Dependence	454	(18)
JAMES MAHONEY & DANIEL SCHENSUL
25. Does History Repeat?	472	(18)
RUTH BERINS COLLIER & SEBASTIÁN MAZZUCA
26. The Present as History	490	(19)
PATRICK THADDEUS JACKSON
PART VII PLACE MATTERS
27. Why and How Place Matters	509	(25)
GÖRAN THERBORN
28. Detecting the Significance of Place	534	(13)
R. BIN WONG
29. Space, Place, and Time	547	(17)
NIGEL J. THRIFT
30. Spaces and Places as Sites and Objects of Politics	564	(15)
JAVIER AUYERO
31. Uses of Local Knowledge	579	(18)
DON KALB
PART VIII POPULATION MATTERS
32. Why and How Population Matters	597	(22)
DAVID LEVINE
33. The Politics of Demography	619	(17)
BRUCE CURTIS
34. Politics and Mass Immigration	636	(13)
GARY P. FREEMAN
35. Population Change, Urbanization, and Political Consolidation	649	(15)
JEFFREY HERBST
36. Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle	664	(17)
DAVID I. KERTZER & DOMINIQUE AREL
PART IX TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
37 Why and How Technology Matters	681	(26)
WIEBE E. BIJKER
38. The Gender Politics of Technology	707	(15)
JUDY WAJCMAN
39 Military Technologies and Politics	722	(23)
WIM A. SMIT
40. Technology as a Site and Object of Politics	745	(22)
SHEILA JASANOFF
PART X OLD AND NEW
41. Duchamp's Urinal: Who Says What's Rational When Things Get Tough?	767	(30)
DAVID E. APTER
42. The Behavioral Revolution and the Remaking of Comparative Politics	797	(9)
LUCIAN PYE
Index	806