The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

882 Pages·2008·5.71 MB·English

the oxford handbook of
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CONTEXTUAL
POLITICAL
ANALYSIS
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Edited by
ROBERT E. GOODIN
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CHARLES TILLY
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AbouttheContributors
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. It Depends 3
Charles Tilly & Robert E. Goodin
PART II PHILOSOPHY MATTERS
2. Why and How Philosophy Matters 35
Philip Pettit
3. The Socialization of Epistemology 58
Louise Antony
4. Political Ontology 78
Colin Hay
5. Mind, Will, and Choice 97
James N. Druckman &Arthur Lupia
6. Theory, Fact, and Logic 114
Rod Aya
PART III PSYCHOLOGY MATTERS
7. Why and How Psychology Matters 131
Kathleen M. McGraw
8. Motivation and Emotion 157
James M. Jasper
9. Social Preferences, Homo Economicus, and Zoon Politikon 172
Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis
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10. Frames and Their Consequences 187
Francesca Polletta & M. Kai Ho
11. Memory, Individual and Collective 210
Aleida Assmann
PART IV IDEAS MATTER
12. Why and How Ideas Matter 227
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
13. Detecting Ideas and Their EVects 252
Richard Price
14. How Previous Ideas AVect Later Ideas 266
Neta C. Crawford
15. How Ideas AVect Actions 284
Jennifer L. Hochschild
16. Mistaken Ideas and Their EVects 297
LeeClarke
PART V CULTURE MATTERS
17. Why and How Culture Matters 319
Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij &
Richard J. Ellis
18. How to Detect Culture and Its EVects 341
Pamela Ballinger
19. Race, Ethnicity, Religion 360
Courtney Jung
20. Language, Its Stakes, and Its EVects 376
Susan Gal
21. The Idea of Political Culture 392
Paul Lichterman & Daniel Cefa¨I
PART VI HISTORY MATTERS
22. Why and How History Matters 417
Charles Tilly
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23. Historical Knowledge and Evidence 438
Roberto Franzosi
24. Historical Context and Path Dependence 454
James Mahoney & Daniel Schensul
25. Does History Repeat? 472
Ruth Berins Collier & SebastiA´n Mazzuca
26. The Present as History 490
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
PART VII PLACE MATTERS
27. Why and How Place Matters 509
GO¨ran Therborn
28. Detecting the SigniWcance of Place 534
R. BinWong
29. Space, Place, and Time 547
Nigel J. Thrift
30. Spaces and Places as Sites and Objects of Politics 564
JavierAuyero
31. Uses of Local Knowledge 579
Don Kalb
PART VIII POPULATION MATTERS
32. Why and How Population Matters 597
David Levine
33. The Politics of Demography 619
Bruce Curtis
34. Politics and Mass Immigration 636
Gary P. Freeman
35. Population Change, Urbanization, and Political Consolidation 649
Jeffrey Herbst
36. Population Composition as an Object of Political Struggle 664
David I. Kertzer & DominiqueArel
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PART IX TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
37. Why and How Technology Matters 681
Wiebe E. Bijker
38. The Gender Politics of Technology 707
Judy Wajcman
39. Military Technologies and Politics 722
WimA. Smit
40. Technology as a Site and Object of Politics 745
Sheila Jasanoff
PART X OLD AND NEW
41. Duchamp’s Urinal: Who Says What’s Rational When
Things Get Tough? 767
David E. Apter
42. The Behavioral Revolution and the Remaking of
Comparative Politics 797
Lucian Pye
Index 806
bout the ontributors
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Louise Antony is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
DavidE.ApterisHenryJ.HeinzIIProfessorofPoliticalandSocialDevelopment
EmeritusandSeniorResearchScholaratYaleUniversity.
Dominique Arel is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the
UniversityofOttawa.
AleidaAssmannisProfessorofEnglishintheFachbereichLiteraturwissenschaftof
theUniversityofKonstanz.
Javier Auyero is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New
York,StonyBrook.
RodAyaisAssistantProfessorofAnthropologyattheUniversityofAmsterdam.
PamelaBallingerisAssociateProfessorofAnthropologyatBowdoinCollege.
Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor of Technology and Society at the University of
Maastricht.
Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences
Program of the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University
ofSiena.
Daniel Cefa¨ı is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris X—
NanterreandResearcherattheInstitutMarcelMauss,EcoledesHautesEtudesen
SciencesSociales.
LeeClarkeisProfessorofSociology atRutgersUniversity.
RuthBerinsCollierisProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversityofCalifornia,
Berkeley.
NetaC.CrawfordisProfessorofPoliticalScienceandAfricanAmericanStudiesat
BostonUniversityandAdjunctProfessorofInternationalRelationsattheWatson
InstituteforInternationalStudiesatBrownUniversity.
BruceCurtisisProfessorofSociologyandAnthropologyatCarletonUniversity.