TY - BOOK AU - Shapiro,Ian AU - Bedi,Sonu ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Political contingency: studying the unexpected, the accidental, and the unforeseen AV - JA71 .P6123 2007eb U1 - 320.01 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Political science KW - Methodology KW - Causation KW - Political aspects KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - Imaginary histories KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 -- 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10210081 ER -