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A New Handbook of Political Science

Robert E. Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann

Abstract

Includes contributions from over 40 political scientists from around the world and surveys developments in the discipline over the past 20 years. Discusses each of the main sub‐disciplines: political institutions, political behaviour, comparative politics, international relations, political theory, public policy, administration of political economy, and political methodology.

Keywords: comparative politics, international relations, political economy, political science, political theory, public policy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9780198294719
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/0198294719.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Robert E. Goodin, editor
Australian National University
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Hans-Dieter Klingemann, editor
Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I The Discipline

Chapter 1 Political Science: The Discipline

Robert E. Goodin Hans‐Dieter Klingemann

Chapter 2 Political Science: The History of the Discipline

Gabriel A. Almond

Chapter 3 Political Science and the Other Social Sciences

Mattei Dogan

Part II Political Institutions

Chapter 4 Political Institutions: An Overview

Bo Rothstein

Chapter 5 Political Institutions: Rational Choice Perspectives

Barry R. Weingast

Chapter 6 Political Institutions: Legal Perspectives

Gavin Drewry

Chapter 7 Political Institutions, Old and New

B. Guy Peters

Part III Political Behavior

Chapter 8 Political Behavior: An Overview

Edward G. Carmines Robert Huckfeldt

Chapter 9 Political Behavior: Reasoning Voters and Multi‐Party Systems

Franz Urban Pappi

Chapter 10 Political Behavior: Institutional and Experiential Approaches

Patrick Dunleavy

Chapter 11 Political Behavior, Old and New

Warren E. Miller

Part IV Comparative Politics

Chapter 12 Comparative Politics: An Overview

Peter Mair

Chapter 13 Comparative Politics: Micro‐Behavioral Perspectives

Russell J. Dalton

Chapter 14 Comparative Politics: Democratization Studies

Laurence Whitehead

Chapter 15 Comparative Politics, Old and New

David E. Apter

Part V International Relations

Chapter 16 International Relations: An Overview

Kjell Goldmann

Chapter 17 International Relations: Neo‐Realism and Neo‐Liberalism

David Sanders

Chapter 18 International Relations: Post‐Positivist and Feminist Perspectives

J. Ann Tickner

Chapter 19 International Relations, Old and New

Robert O. Keohane

Part VI Political Theory

Chapter 20 Political Theory: An Overview

Iris Marion Young

Chapter 21 Political Theory: Traditions in Political Philosophy

Bhikhu Parekh

Chapter 22 Political Theory: Empirical Political Theory

Klaus von Beyme

Chapter 23 Political Theory, Old and New

Brian Barry

Part VII Public Policy and Administration

Chapter 24 Public Policy and Administration: An Overview

Barbara J. Nelson

Chapter 25 Public Policy and Administration: Comparative Policy Analysis

Richard I. Hofferbert David Louis Cingranelli

Chapter 26 Public Policy and Administration: Ideas, Interests and Institutions

Giandomenico Majone

Chapter 27 Public Policy and Administration, Old and New

B. Guy Peters Vincent Wright

Part VIII Political Economy

Chapter 28 Political Economy: An Overview

James E. Alt Alberto Alesina

Chapter 29 Political Economy: Sociological Perspectives

Claus Offe

Chapter 30 Political Economy: Downsian Perspectives

Bernard Grofman

Chapter 31 Political Economy, Old and New

A. B. Atkinson

Part IX Political Methodology

Chapter 32 Political Methodology: An Overview

John E. Jackson

Chapter 33 Political Methodology: Qualitative Methods

Charles C. Ragin Dirk Berg‐Schlosser Gisèle de Meur

Chapter 34 Political Methodology: Research Design and Experimental Methods

Kathleen M. McGraw

Chapter 35 Political Methodology, Old and New

Hayward R. Alker

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Subject Index

Name Index