The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	May 2006
Editors:	Robert E. Goodin • Charles Tilly
Dimensions:	254 x 177 x 55mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	888
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-927043-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Books > History > General Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-927043-0
Barcode:	9780199270439

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