The SAGE Handbook of Political Science

Leonardo Morlino is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Research Center on Democracies and Democratizations at LUISS, Rome. He was President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) (2009-12). He is the author of more than 30 books and more than 200 journal essays and book chapters published in English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese, Mongolian, and Japanese. His most recent books include: Changes for Democracy (Oxford UP, 2011), Democracias y Democratizaciones (CIS, 2008); Democratization and the European Union: Comparing Central and Eastern European Post-Communist Countries (Routledge 2010, with W. Sadurski), International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law: Anchoring Democracy? (Routledge 2008, with A. Magen). He was also one of the three editors of the International Encyclopedia of Political Science (8 voll., Sage Publications, 2011), that won the Honorable Mention of Darthmouth Medal for reference publishing in all domains of knowledge.Morlino was Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence and at the Istituto di Scienze Umane in Florence and has held a number of visiting professorships. In 2002-03 he was the Bechtel Visiting Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business; in 1995 visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution; and in 1989-90 NATO Fellow of the Center for European Studies, Stanford University. His academic credentials also include stints as the Monte dei Paschi Fellow at St. Anthony′s College, Oxford (2010), the Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (2007 and 1998); visiting professor at the Juan March Institute, Madrid (1995-96); and visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris (1993-95, 2006, 2009, 2013). Morlino is a leading specialist in comparative politics with expertise on Southern and Eastern Europe, with a focus on phenomenon of democratization. Now he is directing a new research on the impact of the 2008-14 economic crisis of the six European large democracies.

This handbook breaks new grounds in political science by providing distinct but connected global voices in cutting edge political science research. It will be an indispensable resource for the study of politics well into mid-century but especially in an era of unprecedented transformations and disruptions.

• Volume 01Introduction: Global Political Science - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Bertrand Badie, & Leonardo MorlinoPart 01: Political TheoryChapter 1: Comparative Political Theory - Siddhart MallavarapuChapter 2: Constructivism - Jun AyukawaChapter 3: Durkheimian Tradition in Political Science - Gianfranco PoggiChapter 4: Economic Analysis in Political Science - James Hollifield & Hiroki TakeuchiChapter 5: Functionalism and its Legacy - Timofey AgarinChapter 6: Feminist Political Science - Marian SawerChapter 7: Marx and Marxism in Politics - Dingping GuoChapter 8: New Institutionalism - B. Guy Peters & Jon PierreChapter 9: Normative Political Theory - Furio CeruttiChapter 10: Political Anthropology and its Legacy - Yves SchemeilChapter 11: Uses and Abuses of Formal Models in Political Science - Jack Paine & Scott TysonChapter 12: Post-modernism Past, Present and Future - Richard BeardsworthChapter 13: David Easton′s Political Systems Analysis - Henrik BangChapter 14: Max Weber and the Weberian Tradition in Political Science - Hinnerk Bruhns & Andreas AnterPart 02: MethodsChapter 15: The Survival and Adaptation of Area Studies - Rudra SilChapter 16: Big Data in Social Sciences - Uwe Wagschal & Felix EttenspergerChapter 17: Case Studies and Process Tracing - Derek BeachChapter 18: Causation - Michael BaumgartnerChapter 19: Concept Regulation in Political Science - Zachary ElkinsChapter 20: Configurative Methods - Claudius WagemannChapter 21: Designing a Research Project - Hans KemanChapter 22: Experiments - Anna BassiChapter 23: Historical and Longitudinal Analyses - Einar BerntzenChapter 24: Interpretative Methods - Terrell CarverChapter 25: Methodology - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches - Nathaniel BeckChapter 26: Mixed Method and Multimethod Research and Design - Manfred Max BergmanChapter 27: Ontologies, Epistemologies and the Methodological Awakening - Jonathon MosesChapter 28: Survey Research - Bruno CautrèsVolume 02Part 03: Political SociologyChapter 29: Clientelism - Herbert KitscheltChapter 30: Elites - Ursula Hoffmann-LangeChapter 31: Identities - Ireneusz Pawel KarolewskiChapter 32: Interest Group Systems in the Age of Globalization - Liborio MattinaChapter 33: Parties - Daniel-Louis SeilerChapter 34: Pluralism - Roland CzadaChapter 35: Political Behavior - Oscar GabrielChapter 36: Political Communication - Gianpietro Mazzoleni & Cristopher CepernichChapter 37: Political Cultures - Dirk Berg-SchlosserChapter 38: Political Socialization - Maria Marczewska-RytkoChapter 39: Social Movements - Donatella della PortaChapter 40: Social Structure - Manuel Antonio Garreton & Nicolás Alberto Selamé ZarzarPart 04: Comparative PoliticsChapter 41: Political Accountability - Yannis PapadopoulosChapter 42: Authoritarianisms and Authoritarianization - Oliver Schlumberger & Tasha SchedlerChapter 43: Democracies - Bernard GrofmanChapter 44: Electoral Systems - Bernard GrofmanChapter 45: Executive Power - Ferdinand Mueller-Rommel & Michelangelo VercesiChapter 46: Federalisms - Surinder ShuklaChapter 47: Hybrid Regimes - Jean-François Gagné & Anne-Laure MahéChapter 48: Judicial Power - Daniela PianaChapter 49: Legislative Power - Werner PatzeltChapter 50: Legitimacy and Legitimation - Hans-Joachim LauthChapter 51: Political Competition - Jennifer Cyr & Alexis WorkChapter 52: Regime Change - Laurence WhiteheadChapter 53: Religion and Politics - Jeffrey HaynesChapter 54: Responsiveness - Jeeyang Rhee BaumChapter 55: Political Performance and State Capacity - Edeltraud RollerChapter 56: State Formation and Failure - I. William ZartmanVolume 03Part 05: Public Policies and AdministrationChapter 57: Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Effectiveness - B. Guy PetersChapter 58: Corruption - Bo RothsteinChapter 59: Governance - Carlos R.S. MilaniChapter 60: Implementation - Harald SaetrenChapter 61: Informal Governance and Participatory Institutions - Leonardo AvritzerChapter 62: Local Politics - Helmut WollmannChapter 63: Policies Beyond the State - Eva Heidbreder & Daniel SchadeChapter 64: Politics and Policy - Giliberto CapanoChapter 65: Policy Evaluation - Evert VedungChapter 66: Policy Instruments - Michael HowlettChapter 67: Policy Learning - Claire A. Dunlop & Claudio M. RadaelliChapter 68: Policy Making: Models - Rajesh Chakrabarti & Kaushiki SanyalChapter 69: Regulation - David Levi-Faur & Yael Kariv-TeitelbaumChapter 70: Welfare State - Maurizio FerreraPart 06: International RelationsChapter 71: Diplomacy - Geoffrey WisemanChapter 72: Foreign Policy Analysis - Jonathan PaquinChapter 73: Globalization - Helen MilnerChapter 74: International Political Economy - Stéphane PaquinChapter 75: International Political Theory - Richard Ned LebowChapter 76: International Relations Theory - Gunther HellmannChapter 77: Multilateralism - David M. Malone & Rohinton P. MedhoraChapter 78: The New Wars - Herfried MuenklerChapter 79: In Search of the Non-Western State: Historicising and De-Westphalianising Statehood - Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould MohamedouChapter 80: Regionalism - Louise FawcettChapter 81: State, Power and Security - Klaus Schlichte & Elizaveta GaufmanChapter 82: Transnational Relations as a Field - Jeffrey D. MaslanikChapter 83: War and Peace - Charles-Philippe David & Alexis RapinPart 07: Major Challenges for Politics and Political Science in the 21st CenturyChapter 84: Changes of International Power Relations - Bertrand BadieChapter 85: Environmental Changes - Tancrède VoituriezChapter 86: Human Rights and Humanitarian Interventions on the International Arena - Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr.Chapter 87: International Migration - Christoph RassChapter 88: International Violence - Karim Emile Bitar & Charles ThiboutChapter 89: Minorities: Empirical and Political-Theoretical Reflections on a Cunning Concept - Schirin Amir-MoazemiChapter 90: Populism - Hanspeter KriesiChapter 91: Outcomes after Transitions in Third Wave Democracies - Scott Mainwaring & Fernando BizzarroChapter 92: New Wars in the Global South - Atta EL-Battahani