The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science)

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, 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 theanalysis 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. This Is Part Of A Ten Volume Set Of Reference Books Offering Authoritative And Engaging Critical Overviews Of The State Of Political Science. This Work Explores The Idea Of Context In Politics From A Number Of Angles, Including Philosophically Psychologically, Historically And Culturally. It Depends / Charles Tilly & Robert E. Goodin -- Why And How Philosophy Matters / Philip Pettit -- The Socialization Of Epistemology / Louise Antony -- Political Ontology / Colin Hay -- Mind, Will, And Choice / James N. Druckman & Arthur Lupia -- Theory, Fact, Logic / Rod Aya -- Why And How Psychology Matters / Kathleen M. Mcgraw -- Motivation And Emotion / James M. Jasper -- Social Preferences, Homo Economicus, And Zoon Politikon / Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis -- Frames And Their Consequences / Francesca Polletta & M. Kai Ho -- Memory, Individual And Collective / Aleida Assmann -- Why And How Ideas Matter / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- Detecting Ideas And Their Effects / Richard Price -- How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas / Neta C. Crawford -- How Ideas Affect Actions / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- Mistaken Ideas And Their Effects / Lee Clarke -- Why And How Culture Matters / Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij, & Richard J. Ellis -- How To Detect Culture And Its Effects / Pamela Ballinger -- Race, Ethnicity, Religion / Courtney Jung -- Language, Its Stakes And Its Effects / Susan Gal -- The Idea Of Political Culture / Paul Lichterman & Daniel Cefaï -- Why And How History Matters / Charles Tilly -- Historical Knowledge And Evidence / Roberto Franzosi -- Historical Context And Path Dependence / James Mahoney & Daniel Schensul -- Does History Repeat? / Ruth Berins Collier & Sebastián Mazzuca -- The Present As History / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- Why And How Place Matters / Göran Therborn -- Detecting The Significance Of Place / R. Bin Wong -- Space, Place, And Time / Nigel J. Thrift -- Spaces And Places As Sites And Objects Of Politics / Javier Auyero -- Uses Of Local Knowledge / Don Kalb -- Why And How Population Matters / David Levine -- The Politics Of Demography / Bruce Curtis -- Politics And Mass Immigration / Gary P. Freeman -- Population Change, Urbanization, And Political Consolidation / Jeffrey Herbst -- Population Composition As An Object Of Political Struggle / David I. Kertzer & Dominique Arel -- Why And How Technology Matters / Wiebe E. Bijker -- The Gendered Politics Of Technology / Judy Wacjman -- Military Technologies And Politics / Wim A. Smit -- Technology As A Site And Object Of Politics / Sheila Jasanoff -- Duchamp's Urinal : Who Says What's Rational When Things Get Tough? / David E. Apter -- The Behavioral Revolution And The Remaking Of Comparative Politics / Lucian Pye. Edited By Robert E. Goodin And Charles Tilly. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. 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. ""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 Behaviour, 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 inte In 1994, the Romanian government and the people of Vlaicu faced a knotty problem: how to privatize the village collective farm set up under Romania's state socialism.