List of figures and tables
Notes on the editors and contributors
Preface / Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino and Bertrand Badie
Introduction / Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino and Bertrand Badie
Part I: Political theory: 1. Comparative political theory / Siddharth Mallavarapu; 2. Constructivism / Jun Ayukawa; 3. Emile Durkhein's sociological insight into political phenomena / Gianfranco Poggi; 4. Economic analysis in political science / James F. Hollifield and Hiroki Takeuchi; 5. Functionalism and its legacy / Timofey Agarin; 6. Feminist political science / Marian Sawer; 7. Marx and Marxism in politics / Dingping Guo; 8. The new institutionalism in political science / B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre; 9. How to understand normative political theory / Furio Cerutti; 10. Political anthropology and its legacy / Yves Schemeil; 11. Uses and abuses of formal models in political science / Jack Paine and Scott A. Tyson; 12. Postmodernism past, present and future / Richard Beardsworth; 13. David Easton's political systems analysis / Henrik P. Bang; 14. Max Weber and the Weberian tradition in political science / Andreas Anter and Hinnerk Bruhns


Part II: Methods: 15. The survival and adaptation of area studies / Rudra Sil; 16. Big data in social sciences / Uwe Wagschal and Felix Ettensperger; 17. Case studies and process tracing / Derek Beach; 18. Causation / Michael Baumgartner; 19. Concept regulation in political science / Zachary Elkins; 20. Configurative methods / Claudius Wagemann; 21. Designing a research project / Hans Keman; 22. Experiments / Anna Bassi; 23. Historical and longitudinal analyses / Einar Berntzen; 24. Interpretative methods / Terrell Carver; 25. Methodology: qualitative and quantitative approaches / Nathaniel Beck; 26. Mixed method and multimethod research and design / Manfred Max Bergman; 27. Ontologies, epistemologies and the methodological awakening / Jonathon Moses; 28. Survey research / Bruno Cautrès
Part III: Political sociology: 29. Clientelism / Herbert Kitschelt; 30. Elites / Ursula Hoffmann-Lange; 31. Identities / Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski;
32. Interest group systems in the age of globalization / Liborio Mattina; 33. Parties / Daniel-Louis Seiler; 34. Pluralism / Roland Czada; 35. Political behavior / Oscar Gabriel; 36. Political communication / Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Cristopher Cepernich; 37. Political cultures / Dirk Berg-Schlosser; 38. Political socialization / Maria Marczewska-Rytko; 39. Social movements / Donatella della Porta; 40. Social structure / Manuel Antonio Garretón and Nicolás Selamé


Part IV: Comparative politics: 41. Political accountability / Yannis Papadopoulos; 42. Authoritarianisms and authoritarianization / Oliver Schlumberger and Tasha Schedler; 43. Democracies / Philippe C. Schmitter; 44. Electoral systems / Bernard Grofman; 45. Executive power / Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Michelangelo Vercesi; 46. Federalisms / Surinder Kler Shukla; 47. Hybrid regimes / Jean-François Gagné and Anne-Laure Mahé; 48. Judicial power / Daniela Piana; 49. Legislative power / Werner J. Patzelt; 50. Legitimacy and legitimation / Hans-Joachim Lauth; 51. Political competition / Jennifer Cyr and Alexis Work; 52. Regime change / Laurence Whitehead; 53. Religion and politics / Jeffrey Haynes; 54. Responsiveness / Jeeyang Rhee Baum; 55. Political performance and state capacity / Edeltraud Roller; 56. State formation and failure / I. William Zartman


Part V: Public policies and administration: 57. Bureaucracy and bureaucratic effectiveness / B. Guy Peters; 58. Corruption / Bo Rothstein; 59. Governance / Carlos R. S. Milani; 60. Implementation / Harald Sætren; 61. Informal governance and participatory institutions / Leonardo Avritzer; 62. Local politics / Hellmut Wollmann; 63. Policies beyond the state / Eva G. Heidbreder and Daniel Schade; 64. Politics and policy / Giliberto Capano; 65. Policy evaluation / Evert Vedung; 66. Policy instruments / Michael Howlett; 67. Policy learning / Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli; 68. Policy making: models / Rajesh Chakrabarti and Kaushiki Sanyal; 69. Regulation / David Levi-Faur and Yael Kariv-Teitelbaum; 70. Welfare state / Maurizio Ferrera
Part VI: International relations: 71. Diplomacy / Geoffrey Wiseman; 72. Foreign policy analysis / Jonathan Paquin; 73. Globalization / Helen V. Milner; 74. International political economy / Stéphane Paquin; 75. International political theory / Richard Ned Lebow; 76. International relations theory / Gunther Hellmann; 77. Multilateralism / David M. Malone and Rohinton P. Medhora; 78. The new wars / Herfried Münkler; 79. In search of the non-western state: historicising and de-Westphalianising statehood / Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou; 80. Regionalism / Louise Fawcett; 81. State, power and security / Klaus Schlichte and Elizaveta Gaufman; 82. Transnational relations as a field / Jeffrey D. Maslanik; 83. War and peace / Charles-Philippe David and Alexis Rapin


Part VII: Major challenges for politics and political science in the 21st century: 84. Changes of international power relations / Bertrand Badie; 85. Environmental changes / Tancrède Voituriez; 86. Human rights and humanitarian interventions in the international arena / Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr; 87. International migration / Christoph Rass; 88. International violence / Karim Emile Bitar and Charles Thibout; 89. Minorities: empirical and political-theoretical reflections on a cunning concept / Schirin Amir-Moazami; 90. Populism / Hanspeter Kriesi; 91. Outcomes after democratic transitions in third-wave democracies / Scott Mainwaring and Fernando Bizzarro; 92. New wars in the global south / Atta El-Battahani
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