Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology. Sixty-seven of the top political scientists worldwide survey recent developments in those fields and provide penetrating introductions to exciting new fields of study. Following in the footsteps of the New Handbook of Political Science edited by Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann a decade before, this Oxford Handbook of Political Science will become an indispensable guide to the scope and methods of political science as a whole. It will serve as the reference book of record for political scientists and for those following their work for years to come.
Chapter 1. The State of the Discipline, the Discipline of the State
Chapter 2. Overview of Political Theory
Chapter 3. Normative Methodology
Chapter 4. Theory in History: Problems of Context and Narrative
Chapter 5. Justice after Rawls
Chapter 6. Modernity and its Critics
Chapter 7. Old Institutionalisms: An Overview
Chapter 8. Elaborating the “New Institutionalism”
Chapter 9. Comparative Constitutions
Chapter 10. Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures
Chapter 11. The Regulatory State?
Chapter 12. Overview of Law and Politics: The Study of Law and Politics
Chapter 13. The Judicialization of Politics
Chapter 16. Feminist Theory and the Law
Chapter 17. Overview of Political Behavior: Political Behavior and Citizen Politics
Chapter 18. Political Psychology and Choice
Chapter 19. Voters and Parties
Chapter 20. Comparative Legislative Behavior
Chapter 21. Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory
Chapter 22. Overview of Contextual Political Analysis: It Depends
Chapter 23. Political Ontology
Chapter 24. The Logic of Appropriateness
Chapter 25. Why and How Place Matters
Chapter 26. Why and How History Matters
Chapter 27. Overview of Comparative Politics
Chapter 28. War, Trade, and State Formation
Chapter 29. What Causes Democratization?
Chapter 31. Political Clientelism
Chapter 32. Overview of International Relations: Between Utopia and Reality
Chapter 33. The New Liberalism
Chapter 34. The English School
Chapter 35. From International Relations to Global Society
Chapter 36. Big Questions in the Study of World Politics
Chapter 37. Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations
Chapter 38. Overview of Political Economy: The Reach of Political Economy
Chapter 39. Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory
Chapter 40. Capitalism and Democracy
Chapter 41. Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy
Chapter 42. The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
Chapter 43. Overview of Public Policy: The Public and its Policies
Chapter 44. Social and Cultural Factors: Constraining and Enabling
Chapter 46. Reframing Problematic Policies
Chapter 47. Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
Chapter 48. Overview of Political Methodology: Post-behavioral Movements and Trends
Chapter 49. Causation and Explanation in Social Science
Chapter 50. Field Experiments and Natural Experiments
Chapter 51. The Case Study: What It Is and What It Does
Chapter 52. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods