LEADER 04730nam 2200877 a 450 001 9910778246103321 005 20230124182643.0 010 $a0-8147-0882-X 010 $a0-8147-4072-3 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814708828 035 $a(CKB)1000000000484150 035 $a(EBL)866147 035 $a(OCoLC)782878111 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187322 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181671 035 $a(PQKB)10233390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866147 035 $a(OCoLC)194299706 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10924 035 $a(DE-B1597)547284 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814708828 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866147 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210081 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000484150 100 $a20070517d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPolitical contingency$b[electronic resource] $estudying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen /$fedited by Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4096-0 311 $a0-8147-4044-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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 -- Events as causes : the case of American politics / David R. Mayhew -- Contingent public policies and racial hierarchy : lessons from immigration and census policies / Jennifer Hochschild and Traci Burch -- Region, contingency, and democratization / Susan Stokes -- Contingency, politics, and the nature of inquiry : why non-events matter / Gregory A. Huber -- Modeling contingency / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- When democracy complicates peace : how democratic contingencies affect negotiated settlements / Courtney Jung -- Contingency in biophysical research / Robert G. Shulman and Mark R. Shulman. 330 $aHistory 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 606 $aPolitical science$xMethodology 606 $aCausation$xPolitical aspects 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 606 $aImaginary histories 610 $aThat. 610 $aThis. 610 $aaccidental. 610 $acollection. 610 $acontingency. 610 $aessays. 610 $aexamines. 610 $afashion. 610 $aoriginal. 610 $aphenomena. 610 $apolitical. 610 $apolitics. 610 $asignificance. 610 $astudy. 610 $asystematic. 610 $aunexpected. 610 $aunknowable. 615 0$aPolitical science$xMethodology. 615 0$aCausation$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aImaginary histories. 676 $a320.01 701 $aShapiro$b Ian$0549030 701 $aBedi$b Sonu$01527966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778246103321 996 $aPolitical contingency$93834147 997 $aUNINA