The oxford hand book

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CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS
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Edited by

RO BERT E. GOODIN
andCHARLES TILLY

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t h e ox f o r d ha n d b o o k of

CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS

the oxford handbooks of

political science
General Editor: Robert E. 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 political science. The series as a whole is under theGeneral Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective Welds:

POLITICAL THEORY John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder & Bert A. Rockman P O L I T I C A L B E H AV I O R Russell J. Dalton & Hans-Dieter Klingemann C O M PA R AT I V E P O L I T I C SCarles Boix & Susan C. Stokes L AW & P O L I T I C S Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen & Gregory A. Caldeira PUBLIC POLICY Michael Moran, Martin Rein & Robert E. Goodin POLITICAL ECONOMY Barry R. Weingast & Donald A. Wittman I N T E R N AT I O N A L R E L AT I O N S Christian Reus-Smit & Duncan Snidal C O N T E X T UA L P O L I T I C A L A N A LY S I S Robert E. Goodin & Charles Tilly POLITICALMETHODOLOGY Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady & David Collier
This series aspires to shape the discipline, not just to report on it. Like the Goodin– Klingemann New Handbook of Political Science upon which the series builds, each of these volumes will combine critical commentaries on where the Weld has been together with positive suggestions as to where it ought to be heading.

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