The Oxford handbook of political institutions / edited by R.A.W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder and Bert A. Rockman

Originally published: 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

pt. I. Introduction. The state of the discipline, the discipline of the state / Robert E. Goodin -- part II. Political theory. Overview of political theory / John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips -- Normative methodology / Russell Hardin -- Theory in history : problems of context and narrative / J.G.A. Pocock -- Justice after Rawls / Richard J. Arneson -- Modernity and its critics / Jane Bennett -- part III. Political institutions. Old institutionalisms : an overview / R.A.W. Rhodes -- Elaborating the "new institutionalism" / James G. March and Johan P. Olsen -- Comparative constitutions / Josep M. Colomer -- Political parties in and out of legislatures / John H. Aldrich -- The regulatory state? / John Braithwaite -- part IV. Law and politics. Overview of law and politics : the study of law and politics / Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen and Gregory A. Caldeira -- The judicialization of politics / Ran Hirschl -- Judicial behavior / Jeffrey A. Segal -- Law and society / Lynn Mather -- Feminist theory and the law / Judith A. Baer -- part V. Political behavior. Overview of political behavior : political behavior and citizen politics / Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann -- Political psychology and choice / Diana C. Mutz -- Voters and parties / Anne Wren and Kenneth M. McElwain -- Comparative legislative behavior / Eric M. Uslaner and Thomas Zittel -- Political intolerance in the context of democratic theory / James L. Gibson -- part VI. Contextual political analysis. Overview of contextual political analysis : it depends / Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin -- Political ontology / Colin Hay -- The logic of appropriateness / James G. March and Johan P. Olsen -- Why and how place matters / Goran Therborn -- Why and how history matters / Charles Tilly -- part VII. Comparative politics. Overview of comparative politics / Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes -- War, trade, and state formation / Hendrik Spruyt -- What causes democratization? / Barbara Geddes -- Party systems / Herbert Kitschelt -- Political clientelism / Susan C. Stokes -- part VIII. International relations. Overview of international relations : between utopia and reality / Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal -- The new liberalism / Andrew Moravcsik -- The English School / Tim Dunne -- From international relations to global society / Michael Barnett and Kathryn Sikkink -- Big questions in the study of world politics / Robert O. Keohane -- Six wishes for a more relevant discipline of international relations / Steve Smith -- part IX. Political economy. Overview of political economy : the reach of political economy / Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman -- Economic methods in positive political theory / David Austen-Smith -- Capitalism and democracy / Torben Iversen -- Politics, delegation, and bureaucracy / John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan -- The evolutionary basis of collective action / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- part X. Public policy. Overview of public policy : the public and its policies / Robert E. Goodin, Martin Rein and Michael Moran -- Social and cultural factors : constraining and enabling / Davis B. Bobrow -- Policy dynamics / Eugene Bardach -- Reframing problematic policies / Martin Rein -- Reflections on policy analysis : putting it together again / Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor -- part XI. Political methodology. Overview of political methodology : post- behavioral movements and trends / Henry E. Brady, David Collier and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier -- Causation and explanation in social science / Henry E. Brady -- Field experiments and natural experiments / Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green -- The case study : what It Is and what It does / John Gerring -- Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods / James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin.

The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions, covering both the traditional concerns of political science with constitutions, federalism and bureaucracy and more recent interest in theory and the constructed nature of institutions. The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions draws together a galaxy of distinguished contributors drawn from leading universities across the world