Robert E. Goodin - The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
POLITICAL SCIENCE

GENERAL EDITOR: ROBERT E. GOODIN

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of all the main branches of political science.

The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields:

POLITICAL THEORY
John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder & Bert A. Rockman
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Russell J. Dalton & Hans-Dieter Klingeman
COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Carles Boix & Susan C. Stokes
LAW & POLITICS
Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen & Gregory A. Caldeira
PUBLIC POLICY
Michael Moran, Martin Rein & Robert E. Goodin
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Barry R. Weingast & Donald A. Wittman
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Christian Reus-Smit & Duncan Snidal
CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Robert E. Goodin & Charles Tilly
POLITICAL METHODOLOGY
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady & David Collier

This series aspires to shape the discipline, not just to report on it. Like the Goodin Klingemann New Handbook of Political Science upon which the series builds, each of these volumes will combine critical commentaries on where the field has been together with positive suggestions as to where it ought to be heading.

Edited by
ROBERT E. GOODIN

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Every book has a history. This ones begins with the XVIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Berlin, way back in 1994. I was scheduled to be its Program Chair; that was going to be a lot of work; I decided Id be damned if the program booklet itself was all Id have to show for my efforts. So Hans-Dieter Klingemann and I carved out a stream of State of the Discipline panels designed (with a few nips and tucks here and there) to feed into A New Handbook of Political Science, eventually published by Oxford University Press in 1996. That book did well for OUP. Indecently well, apparently. OUP editors ever since have been under orders to commission several such handbooks each yeardoubtless cursing us as they do, for launching the handbook industry.

Publication of the New Handbook was overseen by Tim Barton, then OUP Politics Editor, and his then assistant, Dominic Byatt, whom I first met at the party for IPSA State of the Discipline panelists thrown by Hans-Dieter in the courtyard of James Stirlings wonderful Wissenschaftszentrum-Berlin. Passing through Oxford five years after the New Handbooks publication, I joined Tim (by then Academic Director of OUP) and Dominic (risen to Politics Editor) for a drink in the Eagle and Child to celebrate its success. Tim was full of praise for the New Handbook, recounting how it had spawned a whole clutch of Oxford Handbooks across all academic disciplines. Perhaps I ought get half a percent royalties on each of them, then, I replied. I have an idea about that! Tim shot back. And over the next pint or two, the scheme for the multi-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science was hatched.

There are of course all too many of handbooks of this and that, these days. (Apologies for whatever part our initial New Handbook might have played in that.) The ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science was supposed to be something different. It was not to be just another clutch of handbooks on random topics. Instead, the animating idea was to map political science systematically, subdiscipline by sub-discipline. The aim was nothing less than mapping of the genome of the discipline.

This was clearly going to be a massive undertaking: ten volumes, fifty chapters each. And while it would overload the production team to try to publish them all at the same time, OUP were rightly anxious that all ten volumes should be published within a very few years of one another (in the end, we managed to get all ten out in just three years). Clearly, I needed help. So I inveigled two dozen of the best political scientists in the world to edit the component volumes. My greatest debt is to them, whose names appear opposite the title page, for their gargantuan efforts in pulling this all off: conceptualizing their volume, talking demigods of the profession into writing for them (and chivvying them to deliver), working with authors to make strong chapters even stronger, and doing it all within a very tight timeframe. I co-edited the first two of the ten volumes myself and know just how much work was involved. So I thank them again, publicly and profusely, for their grace, their commitment, and above all for the excellent products of all their labors.

The present volume has been constructed by mining their ten volumes. When Tim, Dominic, and I conceived this plan over drinks seven years ago, it sounded like this step would be the easy one: a good way to produce, in effect, a replacement for the ageing (but still useful)