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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. Seventy-one 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 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.

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• About the Contributors
• Preface
• Part I Introduction
• 1 The State of the Discipline, the Discipline of the State
• Part II Political Theory
• 2 Overview of Political Theory
• 3 Normative Methodology
• 4 Theory in History: Problems with Context and Narrative
• 5 Justice After Rawls
• 6 Modernity and its Critics
• Part III Political Institutions
• 7 Old Institutionalisms: An Overview
• 8 Elaborating the ""New Institutionalism""
• 9 Comparative Constitutions
• 10 Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures
• 11 The Regulatory State?
• Part IV Law & Politics
• 12 Overview of Law and Politics: The Study of Law and Politics
• 13 The Judicialization of Politics
• 14 Judicial Behavior
• 15 Law and Society
• 16 Feminist Theory and the Law
• Part V Political Behaviors
• 17 Overview of Political Behavior: Political Behavior and Citizen Politics
• 18 Political Psychology and Choice
• 19 Votes and Parties
• 20 Comparative Legislative Behavior
• 21 Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory
• Part VI Contextual Political Analysis
• 22 Overview of Contextual Political Analysis: It Depends
• 23 Political Ontology
• 24 The Logic of Appropriateness
• 25 Why and How Place Matters
• 26 Why and How History Matters
• Part VII Comparative Politics
• 27 Overview of Comparative Politics
• 28 War, Trade and State Formation
• 29 What Causes Democratization?
• 30 Party Systems
• 31 Political Clientelism
• Part VIII International Relations
• 32 Overview of International Relations: Between Utopia and Reality
• 33 The New Liberalism
• 34 The English School
• 35 From International Relations to Global Society
• 36 Big Questions in the Study of World Politics
• 37 Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations
• Part IX Political Economy
• 38 Overview of Political Economy: The Reach of Political Economy
• 39 Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory
• 40 Capitalism and Democracy
• 41 Politics, Delegation and Bureaucracy
• 42 The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
• Part X Public Policy
• 43 Overview of Public Policy: The Public and Its Policies
• 44 Social and Cultural Factors: Constraining and Enabling
• 45 Policy Dynamics
• 46 Reframing Problematic Policies
• 47 Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
• Part XI Political Methodology
• 48 Overview of Political Methodology: Post-behavioral Movements and Trends
• 49 Causation and Explanation in Social Science
• 50 Field Experiments and Natural Experiments
• 51 The Case Study: What It Is and What It Does
• 52 Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
• Appendix: Tables of Contents of the Other Ten Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Goodin (Australian National Univ.) constructed entries for this consolidated single volume primarily from those found within the ten-volume "The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" series and has produced a concise and solid introduction to political science and its ten sub-disciplines. The assembly of scholars from leading US, European, and Australian universities and research centers provides the reader with diverse perspectives and awareness of current scholarship. Entries are heavily cited and provide a concise roadmap of key scholars, theories, and current developments within each area. Goodin does an exceptional job directing new students to academic journals and book series by naming specifically where new developments within political science are first seen. Readers will appreciate the name and subject indexes that provide quick access along with a detailed appendix that routes the reader back to the original series for more in-depth essays within the more specific cross- and sub-discipline areas. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. C. McNamara South Moutain Communicty College

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Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory (eg. Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003), empirical welfare-state studies (eg. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism; Discretionary Time) and theoretical reflections on public policy (eg. Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility; What's Wrong with Terrorism? ).