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The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

By Robert E. Goodin , Charles Tilly

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2008
ISBN
0199548447, 9780199548446
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5992592 bytes)
Series
Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
Pages
882\882
Library
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Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
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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.

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