Cover

Contents

Preface

About the Editors

Part I: General Approaches in Political Science

1 - HISTORY OF THE DISCIPLINE

2 - POSTMODERNISM

3 - NEOINSTITUTIONALISM

4 - SYSTEMISM

5 - RATIONALITY AND RATIONAL CHOICE

6 - PRINCIPAL–AGENT THEORY

7 - POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

8 - STRAUSSIANS

Part II: Comparative Politics

9 - SYSTEMS THEORY AND STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM

10 - POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION

11 - STATISM

12 - DEPENDENCY AND DEVELOPMENT

13 - CIVIL WARS

14 - TERRORISM

15 - POLITICAL AND MILITARY COUPS

16 - RESOURCE SCARCITY AND POLITICAL CONFLICT

17 - ETHNIC CONFLICT

18 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PARTIES: Systems and Organizations

19 - ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

20 - COMPARATIVE FEDERALISM, CONFEDERALISM, UNITARY SYSTEMS

21 - PRESIDENTIALISM VERSUS PARLIAMENTARISM

22 - COMPARATIVE JUDICIAL POLITICS

23 - CIVIL SOCIETY

24 - POLITICAL CULTURE

25 - RELIGION AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS

26 - ETHNIC AND IDENTITY POLITICS

27 - SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

28 - GENDER AND POLITICS

29 - COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND CONFLICT

30 - TOTALITARIANISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM

31 - SEMIAUTHORITARIANISM

32 - MODELS OF DEMOCRACY

33 - PROCESSES OF DEMOCRATIZATION

34 - COMPARATIVE METHODS

35 - CASE STUDIES

Part III: International Relations

36 - HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

37 - REALISM AND NEOREALISM

38 - IDEALISM AND LIBERALISM

39 - DEPENDENCY AND WORLD-SYSTEMS

40 - FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS

41 - FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

42 - LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING

43 - BALANCE OF POWER

44 - DETERRENCE THEORY

45 - RIVALRY, CONFLICT, AND INTERSTATE WAR

46 - THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE

47 - GLOBAL POLITICS OF RESOURCES AND RENTIERISM

48 - COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE AND GLOBALIZATION

49 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TRADE

50 - NONSTATE ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

51 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND REGIMES

52 - INTERNATIONAL LAW

53 - INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

Part IV: Political Science Methodology

54 - EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

55 - POSITIVISM AND ITS CRITIQUE

56 - CONSTRUCTIVISM

57 - REGRESSION ANALYSIS

58 - CONTENT ANALYSIS

59 - LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS

60 - QUALITATIVE VERSUS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

61 - SURVEY RESEARCH

62 - EXPERIMENTS

63 - FORMAL THEORY AND SPATIAL MODELING

64 - GAME THEORY

Part V: Political Thought

65 - THE ANCIENTS

66 - ASIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

67 - ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT

68 - CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

69 - EARLY MODERNS AND CLASSICAL LIBERALS

70 - NEOCLASSICAL LIBERALS

71 - MODERN DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT

72 - MODERN LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM, AND LIBERTARIANISM

73 - ANARCHISM

74 - NATIONALISM

75 - FASCISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM

76 - MARXISM

77 - REVISIONISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

78 - LENINISM, COMMUNISM, STALINISM, AND MAOISM

79 - SOCIALISM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

PART VI: AMERICAN POLITICS

80 - FOUNDING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

81 - URBAN POLITICS

82 - MEDIA AND POLITICS

83 - U.S. CONGRESS

84 - THE PRESIDENCY

85 - AMERICAN JUDICIAL POLITICS

86 - AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY

87 - INTEREST GROUPS AND PLURALISM

88 - AMERICAN FEDERALISM

89 - AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES

90 - STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

91 - PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

92 - CAMPAIGNS

93 - POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION

94 - VOTING BEHAVIOR

95 - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

96 - RACE, ETHNICITY, AND POLITICS

97 - GENDER AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES

98 - RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AMERICA

99 - LGBT ISSUES AND THE QUEER APPROACH

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