Includes bibliographical references and index.

Putting philosophy of political Science on the map / Harold Kincaid and Jeroen Van Bouwel -- The biology of politics : some limitations and reasons for caution / Jonathan Kaplan -- The biological aspects of political attitudes / David Henderson and Stephen Schneider -- Rational choice explanations in political science / Catherine Herfeld and Johannes Marx -- Strategic theory of norms for empirical applications in political science and political economy / Don Ross, Wynn C. Stirling and Luca Tummolini -- Explaining institutional change / Emrah Aydinonat and Petri Ylikoski -- Public choice vs social choice as theories of collective action / Jesús Zamora-Bonilla -- Nineteen kinds of theories about mechanisms that every social science graduate student should know / Andrew Bennett and Benjamin Mishkin -- Conceptualizing and measuring democracy / Sharon Crasnow -- Qualitative research in political science / Julie Zahle -- Interpretivism versus positivism in an age of causal inference / Janet Lawler and David Waldner -- Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) : a pluralistic approach to causal inference / Federica Russo and Benoît Rihoux -- Mixed methods research and the variety of evidence in political science / Jaakko Kuorikoski and Caterina Marchionni -- Generalization, case studies, and within-case causal inference : large-N qualitative analysis / Gary Goertz and Stephan Haggard -- Process tracing : defining the undefinable / Christopher Clarke -- Process tracing : process tracing : causation and levels of analysis / Keith Dowding -- Interventions in political science / Peter John -- Lab experiments in political science through the lens of experimental economics / Andre Hofmeyr and Harold Kincaid -- Philosophy of science issues in clientelism research / Harold Kincaid, Miquel Pellicer and Eva Wegner -- External validity in philosophy and political science : three paradoxes / Maria Jiménez-Buedo -- Context, contextualization and case-study research / Attilia Ruzzene -- Prediction, history and political science / Robert Northcott -- Taking feminism seriously in political science : a cross-disciplinary dialog / Season Hoard, Laci Hubbard-Mattix, Amy G. Mazur and Samantha Noll -- Dealing with values in political science / Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Positivism and value free ideals in political science / Harold Kincaid -- Political experts, expertise, and expert judgment / Julian Reiss -- Progress in international politics : the democratic peace debate / Fred Chernoff.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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