Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Zusatztext Goodin and Tilly have arrayed an outstanding group of fifty-one authors...This is a marvellous handbook into which a researcher might dip and delve. Most of the chapters provide the background needed by the curious, and some are likely to be informative to those already well versed in the area. Taken together, they offer an extensive and well-reasoned check-list of all the dangers and adventures awaiting scholars bent on explanation. The best build on cutting edge work in which the authors themselves engage. Klappentext 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! 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 analysisof 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. Zusammenfassung Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political science and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E. Goodin, Robert E. ( Goodin, Robert E. Tilly Goodin
• Assisted by: Robert E. Goodin (Editor), Goodin Robert E. (Editor), Charles Tilly (Editor), The late Charles Tilly (Editor), Tilly Charles (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780199270439
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927043-9
• No. of pages: 888
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks of Political; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks of Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, PHILOSOPHY / General, HISTORY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Philosophy, Psychology, Population & demography, Population and Demography