Introduction: Contingency’s Challenge to Political Science

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Contingency’s Challenge to Political Science 1
4. Part I. Roots of Contingency
5. 1. From Fortune to Feedback: Contingency and the Birth of Modern Political Science 21
6. 2. Mapping Contingency 54
7. 3. Resilience as the Explanandum of Social Theory 79
8. Part II. Contingency’s Challenge
9. 4. Events as Causes: The Case of American Politics 99
10. 5. Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies 138
11. 6. Region, Contingency, and Democratization 171
12. Part III. What Is to Be Done?
13. 7. Contingency, Politics, and the Nature of Inquiry: Why Non-Events Matter 205
14. 8. Modeling Contingency 222
15. 9. When Democracy Complicates Peace: How Democratic Contingencies Affect Negotiated Settlements 246
16. 10. Contingency in Biophysical Research 266
17. Contributors 279
18. Index 283