Table of Contents

Robert E. Goodin & Hans-Dieter Klingemann; Gabriel A. Almond; Mattei Dogan: Part I: The Discipline
Bo Rothstein; Barry R. Weingast; Gavin Drewry; B. Guy Peters: Part II: Political Institutions
Robert Huckfeldt & Edward G. Carmines; Franz Urban Pappi; Patrick Dunleavy; Warren E. Miller: Part III: Political Behavior
Peter Mair; Russell J. Dalton; Laurence Whitehead; David E. Apter: Part IV: Comparative Politics
Kjell Goldmann; David Sanders; J. Ann Tickner; Robert O. Keohane: Part V: International Relations
Iris Marion Young; Bhikhu Parekh; Klaus von Beyme; Brian Barry: Part VI: Political Theory
Cingranelli; Giandomenico Majone: Part VII: Public Policy and Administration
Barbara J. Nelson; Richard I. Hofferbert & David Louis Cingranelli; Giandomenico Majone; B. Guy Peters & Vincent Wright
James E. Allt & Alberto Alesina; Claus Offe; Bernard Grofman; A. B. Atkinson: Part VIII: Political Economy
John E. Jackson; Charles C. Ragin, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, & Gisele de Meur; Kathleen McGraw; Hayward R. Alker: Part IX: Political Methodology

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About the Author

Robert Goodin is Professor of Philosophy (with special reference to political and moral philosophy) at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University in 1989. He is the Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and General Editor of a series of books on `Theories of Institutional Design'.

Reviews

The New Handbook of Political Science is the most comprehensive and well-done effort to describe the state of political science extant. It contains much which will be required reading. I strongly recommend it Seymour Martin Lipset The Handbook is a masterly and authoritative survey, comprehensive yet compact, by a stellar international cast of contributors ... a most worthy successor to the old Greenstein-Polsby Handbook, published two decades ago Arend Lijphart This is an extraordinarily useful mapping of what has happened in the discipline in the last twenty years, since the classic 1975 Handbook was published ... Scholars are well advised to read this new, single-volume Handbook in its entirety. For this volume is not only a collection of brilliant contributions, but also a much needed cross-fertilizing endeavour Giovanni Sartori