The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science

by Robert E. Goodin (Editor), Charles Tilly (Editor)

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 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.

Genres: Politics, Political Science, Reference

869 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

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Reviews

[Mohammed Aiyob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Important and rich book with a variety of useful topics. a truly good start in the field of political analysis.