Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Robert Goodin has put together a superb volume: truly a collection of the very best from the already outstanding chapters in the original ten volumes. The authors -- the most prominent and authoritative experts from all over the world -- provide not only a comprehensive and systematic assessment of what political science has already accomplished but also a guide to where the discipline should be heading in the future. Political
scientists in all fields will welcome this immensely valuable effort.
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Arend Lijphart, Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
`A concise and solid introduction to political science and its ten sub-disciplines. The assembly of scholars from leading US, European, and Australian universities and research centres provides the reader with diverse perspectives and awareness of current scholarship. Entries are heavily cited and provide a concise roadmap of key scholars, theories, and current developments within each area...Highly recommended
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CHOICE
`Anyone who wants to know the state of the art in political science and where the discipline is headed, but only consult one volume, need go no further than these authoritative essays by first rate contributors
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Carole Pateman, Research Professor School of European Studies, Cardiff University