Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 296 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814740448
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9780814740446
Content:
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 histor
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Shapiro_Bedi_frnt; 9780814740446_Sharp_POD.pdf; 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?
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7 Contingency, Politics, and the Nature of Inquiry: Why Non-Events Matter8 Modeling Contingency; 9 When Democracy Complicates Peace: How Democratic Contingencies Affect Negotiated Settlements; 10 Contingency in Biophysical Research; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814740446
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Political Contingency : Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen
Language:
English
