The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199548446)

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those 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 modeling 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 analysis of 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.


Author: Robert E. Goodin
ISBN-10: 0199548447
ISBN-13: 9780199548446
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2008
Pages: 888
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 1.60d