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

Political Contingency : : Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen / / ed. by Sonu Bedi, Ian Shapiro.

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History is replete with instances of what might, or might not, have been. By calling something contingent, at a minimum we are saying that it did not have to be as it is. Things could have been otherwise, and they would have been otherwise if something had happened differently. This collection of or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bedi, Sonu,
Burch, Traci,
Hochschild, Jennifer,
Huber, Gregory A.,
Jean Wood, Elisabeth,
Jung, Courtney,
Mayhew, David R.,
Pettit, Philip,
Schedler, Andreas,
Shapiro, Ian,
Shulman, Mark R.,
Shulman, Robert G.,
Stokes, Susan,
Wootton, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Bedi, Sonu,
Shapiro, Ian,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction: Contingency’s Challenge to Political Science --   |t Part I. Roots of Contingency --   |t 1. From Fortune to Feedback: Contingency and the Birth of Modern Political Science --   |t 2. Mapping Contingency --   |t 3. Resilience as the Explanandum of Social Theory --   |t Part II. Contingency’s Challenge --   |t 4. Events as Causes: The Case of American Politics --   |t 5. Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies --   |t 6. Region, Contingency, and Democratization --   |t Part III. What Is to Be Done? --   |t 7. Contingency, Politics, and the Nature of Inquiry: Why Non-Events Matter --   |t 8. Modeling Contingency --   |t 9. When Democracy Complicates Peace: How Democratic Contingencies Affect Negotiated Settlements --   |t 10. Contingency in Biophysical Research --   |t Contributors --   |t Index 
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520 |a History is replete with instances of what might, or might not, have been. By calling something contingent, at a minimum we are saying that it did not have to be as it is. Things could have been otherwise, and they would have been otherwise if something had happened differently. This collection of original essays examines the significance of contingency in the study of politics. That is, how to study unexpected, accidental, or unknowable political phenomena in a systematic fashion. Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated. Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans. How might history be different had these events not happened? How should social scientists interpret the significance of these events and can such unexpected outcomes be accounted for in a systematic way or by theoretical models? Can these unpredictable events be predicted for? Political Contingency addresses these and other related questions, providing theoretical and historical perspectives on the topic, empirical case studies, and the methodological challenges that the fact of contingency poses for the study of politics.Contributors: Sonu Bedi, Traci Burch, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Gregory A. Huber, Courtney Jung, David R. Mayhew, Philip Pettit, Andreas Schedler, Mark R. Shulman, Robert G. Shulman, Ian Shapiro, Susan Stokes, Elisabeth Jean Wood, and David Wootton 
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