Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction
1: Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin: It Depends
Part II. Philosophy Matters
2: Philip Pettit: Why and How Philosophy Matters
3: Louise Antony: The Socialization of Epistemology
4: Colin Hay: Political Ontology
5: James N. Druckman and Arthur Lupia: Mind, Will, and Choice
6: Rod Aya: Theory, Fact, Logic
Part III. Psychology Matters
7: Kathleen M. McGraw: Why and How Psychology Matters
8: James M. Jasper: Motivation and Emotion
9: Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: Social Preferences, Homo Economicus, and Zoon Politikon
10: Francesca Polletta and M. Kai Ho: Frames and Their Consequences
11: Aleida Assmann: Memory, Individual and Collective
Part IV. Ideas Matter
12: Dietrich Rueschemeyer: Why and How Ideas Matter
13: Richard Price: Detecting Ideas and Their Effects
14: Neta C. Crawford: How Previous Ideas Affect Later Ideas
15: Jennifer L. Hochschild: How Ideas Affect Actions
16: Lee Clarke: Mistaken Ideas and Their Effects
Part V. Culture Matters
17: Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij, and Richard J. Ellis: Why And How Culture Matters
18: Pamela Ballinger: How to Detect Culture and its Effects
19: Courtney Jung: Race, Ethnicity, Religion
20: Susan Gal: Language, Its Stakes and Its Effects
21: Paul Lichterman and Daniel Cefaï: The Idea of Political Culture
Part VI. History Matters
22: Charles Tilly: Why and How History Matters
23: Roberto Franzosi: Historical Knowledge and Evidence
24: James Mahoney and Daniel Schensul: Historical Context and Path Dependence
25: Ruth Berins Collier and Sebastián Mazzuca: Does History Repeat?
26: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson: The Present as History
Part VII. Place Matters
27: Göran Therborn: Why and How Place Matters
28: R. Bin Wong: Detecting the Significance of Place
29: Nigel J. Thrift: Space, Place, and Time
30: Javier Auyero: Spaces and Places as Sites and Objects of Politics
31: Don Kalb: Uses of Local Knowledge
Part VIII. Population Matters
32: David Levine: Why and How Population Matters
33: Bruce Curtis: The Politics of Demography
34: Gary P. Freeman: Politics and Mass Immigration
35: Jeffrey Herbst: Population Change, Urbanization, and Political Consolidation
36: David I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel: Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle
Part IX. Technology Matters
37: Wiebe E. Bijker: Why and How Technology Matters
38: Judy Wacjman: The Gendered Politics of Technology
39: Wim A. Smit: Military Technologies and Politics
40: Sheila Jasanoff: Technology as a Site and Object of Politics
Part X. Old and New
41: David E. Apter: Duchamp's Urinal: Who Says What's Rational When Things Get Tough?
42: Lucian Pye: The Behavioral Revolution and the Remaking of Comparative Politics

Reviews

Spanning all of the major substantive areas and approaches in modern political science, this blockbuster set is a must-have for scholars and students alike. Each volume is crafted by a distinguished set of editors who have assembled critical, comprehensive, essays to survey accumulated knowledge and emerging issues in the study of politics. These volumes will help to shape the discipline for many years to come. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Judging from the editors, contributors, and topics covered, the forthcoming Oxford Handbooks of Political Science will be a landmark series...This is a series that not only university libraries, but more specialized social science and political science libraries, will want to have on their shelves Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University This extraordinary series offers 'state of the art' assessments that instruct, engage, and provoke. Both synoptic and directive, the fine essays across these superbly edited volumes reflect the ambitions and diversity of political science. No one who is immersed in the discipline's controversies and possibilities should miss the intellectual stimulation and critical appraisal these works so powerfully provide. Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University Under the general editorship of Robert E. Goodin, a large group of intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we know. Claus Offe, Professor of Political Science, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Institute for Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin. This volume is an invaluable intervention in the Metoden Streit agitating American social science. A detailed justification of context, it presents an array of expert witnesses who have confronted the methodological choices characteristic of different contextual fieldsplace, time, culture, ideas, etc. The intervention is judicious. While defending the particularity which context requires, it does not surrender the possibility of regularities. This methodological cornucopia, with its excellent, agenda setting introduction, will provide authoritative and stimulating guidance to the pathways of political science approaches. Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emerita, University of Chicago A paramount effort coordinated by Robert Goodin for Oxford University Press has produced an impressive set of ten volumes about the state of the discipline, the Oxford Handbook of Political Science, which has become an instant must. Josep Colomer's Weekly Blog 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. Margaret Levi, Political Studies Review