Political contingency studying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Shapiro, Ian, Bedi, Sonu
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Contingency's challenge to political science / Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi
  • From fortune to feedback : contingency and the birth of modern political science / David Wootton
  • Mapping contingency / Andreas Schedler
  • Resilience as the explanandum of social theory / Philip Pettit
  • Events as causes : the case of American politics / David R. Mayhew
  • Contingent public policies and racial hierarchy : lessons from immigration and census policies / Jennifer Hochschild and Traci Burch
  • Region, contingency, and democratization / Susan Stokes
  • Contingency, politics, and the nature of inquiry : why non-events matter / Gregory A. Huber
  • Modeling contingency / Elisabeth Jean Wood
  • When democracy complicates peace : how democratic contingencies affect negotiated settlements / Courtney Jung
  • Contingency in biophysical research / Robert G. Shulman and Mark R. Shulman.