The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science Harold Kincaid

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197519806
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197519806
• Author(s): Harold Kincaid, Jeroen Van Bouwel

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science contains twenty-seven freshly written chapters to give the reader a panoramic introduction to philosophical issues in the practice of political science. Simultaneously, it advances the field of Philosophy of Political Science by creating a fruitful meeting place where both philosophers and practicing political scientists contribute and discuss. These philosophical discussions are close to and informed by actual developments in political science, making philosophy of science continuous with the sciences, another aspiration that motivates this volume. The chapters fall under four headings: (1) evaluating theoretical frameworks in political science; (2) methodological challenges and reconciliations; (3) the purposes and uses of political science; and, (4) the interactions between political science and society. Specific topics discussed include the biology of political attitudes, intra-agent mechanisms, rational choice explanations, theories of collective action, explaining institutional change, conceptualizing and measuring democracy, process tracing, qualitative comparative analysis, interpretivism and positivism, mixed methods, within-cause causal inference, evidential pluralism, lab and field experiments, external validity, contextualization, prediction, expertise, clientelism, feminism, values, and progress in political science.

Table contents:

1. Putting Philosophy of Political Science on the Map
Part 1. Analyzing Basic Frameworks in Political Science
2. The Biology of Politics: Some Limitations and Reasons for Caution
3. The Biological Aspects of Political Attitudes
4. Rational Choice Explanations in Political Science
5. Strategic Theory of Norms for Empirical Applications in Political Science and Political Economy
6. Explaining Institutional Change
7. Public Choice versus Social Choice as Theories of Collective Action
8. Nineteen Kinds of Theories about Mechanisms that Every Social Science Graduate Student Should Know
Part 2. Methods in Political Science, Debates, and Reconciliations
9. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
10. Qualitative Research in Political Science
11. Interpretivism versus Positivism in an Age of Causal Inference
12. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): A Pluralistic Approach to Causal Inference
13. Mixed-Methods Research and Variety of Evidence in Political Science
14. Generalization, Case Studies, and Within-Case Causal Inference: Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA)
15. Process Tracing: Defining the Undefinable?
16. Process Tracing: Causation and Levels of Analysis
17. Randomized Interventions in Political Science: Are the Critics Right?
18. Lab Experiments in Political Science through the Lens of Experimental Economics
Part 3. Purposes and Uses of Political Science
19. Philosophy of Science Issues in Clientelism Research
20. External Validity in Philosophy and Political Science: Three Paradoxes
21. Context, Contextualization, and Case-Study Research
22. Prediction, History, and Political Science
Part 4. Political Science in Society: Values, Expertise, and Progress
23. Taking Feminism Seriously in Political Science: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialog
24. How to Deal with Values in Political Science?
25. Positivism and Value Free Ideals in Political Science
26. Political Experts, Expertise, and Expert Judgment
27. Progress in International Politics: The Democratic Peace Debate
Index

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