The SAGE handbook of political science Intro The SAGE Handbook of Political Science Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors and Contributors Preface Introduction PART I: Political Theory 1 Comparative Political Theory 2 Constructivism 3 Emile Durkheins Sociological Insight Into Political Phenomena 4 Economic Analysis in Political Science 5 Functionalism and Its Legacy 6 Feminist Political Science 7 Marx and Marxism in Politics 8 The New Institutionalism in Political Science 9 How to Understand Normative Political Theory 10 Political Anthropology and Its Legacy 11 Uses and Abuses of Formal Models in Political Science 12 Postmodernism Past Present and Future 13 David Eastons Political Systems Analysis 14 Max Weber and the Weberian Tradition in Political Science PART II: Methods 15 The Survival and Adaptation of Area Studies 16 Big Data in Social Sciences 17 Case Studies and Process Tracing 18 Causation 19 Concept Regulation in Political Science 20 Configurative Methods 21 Designing a Research Project 22 Experiments 23 Historical and Longitudinal Analyses 24 Interpretative Methods 25 Methodology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches 26 Mixed Method and Multimethod Research and Design 27 Ontologies Epistemologies and the Methodological Awakening 28 Survey Research PART III: Political Sociology 29 Clientelism 30 Elites 31 Identities 32 Interest Group Systems in the Age of Globalization 33 Parties 34 Pluralism 35 Political Behavior 36 Political Communication 37 Political Cultures 38 Political Socialization 39 Social Movements 40 Social Structure PART IV: Comparative Politics 41 Political Accountability 42 Authoritarianisms and Authoritarianization 43 Democracies 44 Electoral Systems 45 Executive Power. Comprising three volumes of contributions from expert authors from around the world The SAGE Handbook of Political Science aims to frame assess and synthesize research in the field helping to define and identify its current and future developments.