The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science brings together philosophers of science and political scientists to discuss philosophical issues in political science. The book offers twenty-seven essays on how to do research in political science, the purposes and use of political science in society as well as how to evaluate claims made by political scientists.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1. Putting Philosophy of Political Science on the map - Harold Kincaid and Jeroen Van Bouwel
- Part 1. Analyzing Basic Frameworks in Political Science
- Chapter 2. The Biology of Politics: Some Limitations and Reasons for Caution - Jonathan Kaplan
- Chapter 3. The Biological Aspects of Political Attitudes - David Henderson and Stephen Schneider
- Chapter 4. Rational Choice Explanations in Political Science - Catherine Herfeld and Johannes Marx
- Chapter 5. Strategic Theory of Norms for Empirical Applications in Political Science and Political Economy - Don Ross, Wynn C. Stirling and Luca Tummolini
- Chapter 6. Explaining Institutional Change - Emrah Aydinonat and Petri Ylikoski
- Chapter 7. Public Choice vs Social Choice as Theories of Collective Action - Jesús Zamora-Bonilla
- Chapter 8. Nineteen Kinds of Theories about Mechanisms that Every Social Science Graduate Student Should Know - Andrew Bennett and Benjamin Mishkin
- Part 2. Methods in Political Science, Debates and Reconciliations
- Chapter 9. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy - Sharon Crasnow
- Chapter 10. Qualitative Research in Political Science - Julie Zahle
- Chapter 11. Interpretivism versus Positivism in an Age of Causal Inference - Janet Lawler and David Waldner
- Chapter 12. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): A pluralistic approach to causal inference - Federica Russo and Benoît Rihoux
- Chapter 13. Mixed methods research and the variety of evidence in political science - Jaakko Kuorikoski and Caterina Marchionni
- Chapter 14. Generalization, case studies, and within-case causal inference: Large-N Qualitative Analysis - Gary Goertz and Stephan Haggard
- Chapter 15. Process Tracing: Defining the Undefinable - Christopher Clarke
- Chapter 16. Process Tracing: Process Tracing: Causation and Levels of Analysis - Keith Dowding
- Chapter 17. Interventions in Political Science - Peter John
- Chapter 18. Lab Experiments in Political Science through the Lens of Experimental Economics - Andre Hofmeyr and Harold Kincaid
- Part 3. Purposes and Uses of Political Science
- Chapter 19. Philosophy of Science Issues in Clientelism Research - Harold Kincaid, Miquel Pellicer and Eva Wegner
- Chapter 20. External Validity in Philosophy and Political Science: Three Paradoxes - Maria Jiménez-Buedo
- Chapter 21. Context, Contextualization and Case-Study Research - Attilia Ruzzene
- Chapter 22. Prediction, history and political science - Robert Northcott
- Part 4. Political Science in Society: Values, Expertise and Progress
- Chapter 23. Taking Feminism Seriously in Political Science: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialog - Season Hoard, Laci Hubbard-Mattix, Amy G. Mazur and Samantha Noll
- Chapter 24. Dealing with Values in Political Science - Jeroen Van Bouwel
- Chapter 25. Positivism and Value Free Ideals in Political Science - Harold Kincaid
- Chapter 26. Political Experts, Expertise, and Expert Judgment - Julian Reiss
- Chapter 27. Progress in International Politics: The Democratic Peace Debate - Fred Chernoff
