The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Edited by Robert E. Goodin

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science

1,312 pages | 246x171mm

978-0-19-960445-6 | Paperback | 07 July 2011

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Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University and University of Essex

Robert Goodin is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. He is Distinguished Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, having previously taught in the Government Department at the University of Essex. His work straddles democratic theory (e.g. Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003), empirical welfare-state studies (e.g., The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, CUP 1999; Discretionary Time, CUP 2008) and theoretical reflections on public policy (e.g., Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility, CUP 1998; What's Wrong with Terrorism? Polity 2006).

Contributors:
John H. Aldrich is Pfizer-Pratt University Professor in the Department of Political Science, Duke University.
Richard J. Arneson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
David Austen-Smith is Earl Dean Howard Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University.
Judith A. Baer is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University.
Eugene Bardach is Professor of Public Policy in the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Barnett is the Harold Stassen Chair of International Affairs at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.
Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
Davis B. Bobrow is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
Carles Boix is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program of the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena .
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Program in Statistics Methodology at Ohio State University.
Henry E. Brady is Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsche Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and the Goldman School of Public Policy, and Director of the Survey Research Center, UC DATA, and California Census Research Center, University of California, Berkeley.
John Braithwaite is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in RetNet, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Gregory A Caldera is Distinguished University Professor and Chaired Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University.
David Collier is Robson Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science.
Josep M. Colomer is Research Professor in Political Science in the Higher Council of Scientific Research, Barcelona.
Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.
John Dryzek is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Tim Dunne is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre of Advanced International Studies at the University of Exeter.
James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.
Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Alan S. Gerber is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics, Yale University.
John Gerring is Professor of Political Science at Boston University.
James L. Gibson is Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University, St. Louis.
Herbert Gintis is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.
Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.
Russell Hardin is Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Political Science, New York University.
Colin Hay is Professor of Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield.
Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto.
Bonnie Honig is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
John D. Huber is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.
Daniel Kelemen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University.
Herbert Kitschelt is George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, Duke University.
Rudolf Klein was formerly Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath.
Hans-Dieter Klingemann is Emeritus Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, where he was Director of the Research Unit for Institutions and Social Change.
David D. Laitin is James T. Watkins IV and Elsie V. Watkins Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
James G. March is Professor of Education and Emeritus Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management, of Political Science and of Sociology, Stanford University.
Theodore R. Marmor is Professor of Public Policy and Management and Professor of Political Science, Yale University.
Lynn Mather is Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Kenneth Mori McElwain is a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies, Stanford University.
Michael Moran is W. J. M. Mackenzie Professor of Government, University of Manchester.
Andrew Moravscik is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Diana C. Mutz is Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Politica Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at The Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Johan P. Olsen is Professor Emeritus at ARENA, University of Oslo.
Anne Phillips is Professor of Gender Theory in the Department of Government and Gender Institute, London School of Economics
J.G.A. Pocock is Henry C. Black Professor Emeritus of History, Johns Hopkins University.
Martin Rein is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Christian Reus-Smit is Professor of International Relations in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Political Science at University of Tasmania and at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Jeffrey A. Segal is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Charles R Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Kathryn Sikkink is a Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.
Steve Smith is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter.
Duncan Snidal is Associate Professor in the Harris School, the Department of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.
Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science,Northwestern University.
Susan C. Stokes is John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, Yale University.
Göran Therborn is a Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala.
Charles Tilly was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
Eric M. Uslaner is Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland.
Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.
Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Donald A. Wittman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Anne Wren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
Thomas Zittel is Project Director, European Political Systems and their Integration at the University of Mannheim.

About the Contributors
Preface
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1: ROBERT E. GOODIN: The State of the Discipline, the Discipline of the State
PART II POLITICAL THEORY
2: JOHN S. DRYZEK, BONNIE HONIG and ANNE PHILLIPS: Overview of Political Theory
3: RUSSELL HARDIN: Normative Methodology
4: J.G.A. POCOCK: Theory in History: Problems with Context and Narrative
5: RICHARD J. ARNESON: Justice After Rawls
6: JANE BENNETT: Modernity and its Critics
PART III POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
7: R.A.W. RHODES: Old Institutionalisms: An Overview
8: JAMES G. MARCH and JOHAN P. OLSEN: Elaborating the "New Institutionalism"
9: JOSEP M. COLOMER: Comparative Constitutions
10: JOHN H. ALDRICH: Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures
11: JOHN BRAITHWAITE: The Regulatory State?
PART IV LAW & POLITICS
12: KEITH E. WHITTINGTON, R DANIEL KELEMEN and GREGORY A CALDEIRA: Overview of Law and Politics: The Study of Law and Politics
13: RAN HIRSCHL: The Judicialization of Politics
14: JEFFREY A. SEGAL: Judicial Behavior
15: LYNN MATHER: Law and Society
16: JUDITH A. BAER: Feminist Theory and the Law
PART V POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
17: RUSSELL J. DALTON and HANS-DIETER KLINGEMANN: Overview of Political Behavior: Political Behavior and Citizen Politics
18: DIANA C. MUTZ: Political Psychology and Choice
19: ANNE WREN and KENNETH M. McELWAIN: Votes and Parties
20: ERIC M. USLANER and THOMAS ZITTEL: Comparative Legislative Behavior
21: JAMES L. GIBSON: Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory
PART VI CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS
22: CHARLES TILLY and ROBERT E. GOODIN: Overview of Contextual Political Analysis: It Depends
23: COLIN HAY: Political Ontology
24: JAMES G. MARCH and JOHAN P. OLSEN: The Logic of Appropriateness
25: GÖRAN THERBORN: Why and How Place Matters
26: CHARLES TILLY: Why and How History Matters
PART VII COMPARATIVE POLITICS
27: CARLES BOIX and SUSAN C. STOKES: Overview of Comparative Politics
28: HENDRIK SPRUYT: War, Trade and State Formation
29: BARBARA GEDDES: What Causes Democratization?
30: HERBERT KITSCHELT: Party Systems
31: SUSAN C. STOKES: Political Clientelism
PART VIII INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
32: CHRISTIAN REUS-SMIT and DUNCAN SNIDAL: Overview of International Relations: Between Utopia and Reality
33: ANDREW MORAVSCIK: The New Liberalism
34: TIM DUNNE: The English School
35: MICHAEL BARNETT and KATHRYN SIKKINK: From International Relations to Global Society
36: ROBERT O. KEOHANE: Big Questions in the Study of World Politics ROBERT O. KEOHANE
37: STEVE SMITH: Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations
PART IX POLITICAL ECONOMY
38: BARRY R. WEINGAST and DONALD A. WITTMAN: Overview of Political Economy: The Reach of Political Economy
39: DAVID AUSTEN-SMITH: Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory
40: TORBEN IVERSEN: Capitalism and Democracy
41: JOHN D. HUBER and CHARLES R SHIPAN: Politics, Delegation and Bureaucracy
42: SAMUEL BOWLES and HERBERT GINTIS: The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
PART X PUBLIC POLICY
43: ROBERT E. GOODIN, MICHAEL MORAN and MARTIN REIN: Overview of Public Policy: The Public and Its Policies
44: DAVIS B. BOBROW: Social and Cultural Factors: Constraining and Enabling
45: EUGENE BARDACH: Policy Dynamics
46: MARTIN REIN: Reframing Problematic Policies
47: RUDOLF KLEIN and THEODORE R. MARMOR: Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
PART XI POLITICAL METHODOLOGY
48: HENRY E. BRADY, DAVID COLLIER and JANET M. BOX- STEFFENSMEIER: Overview of Political Methodology: Post-behavioral Movements and Trends
49: HENRY E. BRADY: Causation and Explanation in Social Science
50: ALAN S. GERBER and DONALD P. GREEN: Field Experiments and Natural Experiments
51: JOHN GERRING: The Case Study: What It Is and What It Does
52: DAVID D. LAITIN and JAMES D. FEARON: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
APPENDIX: Tables of Contents of the Other Ten Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
Index

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