The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis [Paperback]

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysissets 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 modeling 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 Analysisshows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account.


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.lÃÒ