Political contingency : studying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen / edited by Ian...
Political contingency : studying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen / edited by Ian...
Political contingency : studying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen / edited by Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi.
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New York : New York University Press, c2007.
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N320.01/ 171
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English
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Physical content
viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Contingency's challenge to political science / Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi -- From fortune to feedback : contingency and the birth of modern political science / David Wootton -- Mapping contingency / Andreas Schedler -- Resilience as the explanandum of social theory / Philip Pettit -- Ev...
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Publisher
New York : New York University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"This collection of essays examines the significance of contingency in the study of politics. That is, how to study unexpected, accidental, or unforeseen political phenomena in a systematic fashion." "Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated. Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans. How might history have been different had these eve...
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Political contingency : studying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen / edited by Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2007.
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N320.01/ 171
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74VK3DqlJpVA
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ISBN
0814740448 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814740446 (cloth : alk. paper)
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320.01
MMS ID
991023657499702626
