the oxford handbook of ...................................................................................................................................................... CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................................... Edited by ROBERT E. GOODIN and CHARLES TILLY 1 the oxford handbook of CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS t h e o x f o r d h a n d b o o k s o f p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e GeneralEditor:RobertE.Goodin The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books oVering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of all the main branches of politicalscience. The series as awhole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. 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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 vi contents 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 contents vii 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 viii contents 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 A C ............................................................................................................. 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.