The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, Volume 5

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Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly
Oxford University Press, 2006 - 869 pages
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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Contents

It Depends
3
Why and How Philosophy Matters
35
The Socialization of Epistemology
58
Political Ontology
78
Mind Will and Choice
97
Theory Fact and Logic
114
Why and How Psychology Matters
131
Motivation and Emotion
157
Historical Knowledge and Evidence
438
Historical Context and Path Dependence
454
Does History Repeat?
472
The Present as History
490
Why and How Place Matters
509
Detecting the Significance of Place
534
Space Place and Time
547
Spaces and Places as Sites and Objects of Politics
564

Social Preferences Homo Economicus and Zoon Politikon
172
Frames and Their Consequences
187
Memory Individual and Collective
210
Why and How Ideas Matter
227
Detecting Ideas and Their Effects
252
How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas
266
How Ideas Affect Actions
284
Mistaken Ideas and Their Effects
297
Why and How Culture Matters
319
How to Detect Culture and Its Effects
341
Race Ethnicity Religion
360
Language Its Stakes and Its Effects
376
The Idea of Political Culture
392
Why and How History Matters
417
Uses of Local Knowledge
579
Why and How Population Matters
597
The Politics of Demography
619
Politics and Mass Immigration
636
Population Change Urbanization and Political Consolidation
649
Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle
664
Why and How Technology Matters
681
The Gender Politics of Technology
707
Technology as a Site and Object of Politics
745
Who Says Whats Rational When
766
The Behavioral Revolution and the Remaking
796
Index
806
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Social scientist Charles Tilly was born in Lombard, Illinois on May 27, 1929. He graduated from Harvard Univeristy with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a docorate in sociology in 1958. He also studied at Oxford University and the Catholic University in Angers, France. During the Korean War, he served in the Navy. He taught sociology and political science at numerous univeristies including the University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan and Columbia University. During his lifetime, he wrote 51 books and monographs and more than 600 scholoarly articles. He received numerous awards including the Albert O. Hirschman Award from the Social Science Research Council. He died from lymphoma on April 29, 2008.

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