Political Contingency ：Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen

Publication subTitle ：Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen

Author： Shapiro Ian

Publisher： NYU Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780814708828

Subject： D0 Political Theory

Language： ENG

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Contents

Introduction: Contingency’s Challenge to Political Science

Part I: Roots of Contingency

1 From Fortune to Feedback: Contingency and the Birth of Modern Political Science

2 Mapping Contingency

3 Resilience as the Explanandum of Social Theory

Part II: Contingency’s Challenge

4 Events as Causes: The Case of American Politics

5 Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies

6 Region, Contingency, and Democratization

Part III: What Is to Be Done?

7 Contingency, Politics, and the Nature of Inquiry: Why Non-Events Matter

8 Modeling Contingency

9 When Democracy Complicates Peace: How Democratic Contingencies Affect Negotiated Settlements

10 Contingency in Biophysical Research

Contributors

Index

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