Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Pt. I. Introduction. The state of the discipline, the discipline of the state / Robert E. Goodin -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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