Table of Contents

Analytical Perspectives, Analytical Controversies What's Political about Political Science? Beyond Structure versus Agency: Context versus Conduct Continuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political Change Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualising Power The Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary Political Analysis: Beyond Materialism and Idealism The Challenge of Postmodernism Conclusion: Critical Political Analytical.

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'A truly excellent and enormously useful volume which provides a remarkably coherent and powerful synthesis of an enormous body of literature. Political Analysis does more than simply summarize previous work in comparative politics and international relations, it genuinely moves the debate forward. Whether or not one accepts Professor Hay's call for a constructivistinstitutionalism (and he offers many good reasons why we should) this is a book that all students of politics must take seriously.' - Sven Steinmo,University of Colorado, Boulder

About the Author

COLIN HAY is Professor of Political Analysis, University of Birmingham and has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science, MIT Center for European Studies, Harvard.

Reviews

'A truly excellent and enormously useful volume which provides a remarkably coherent and powerful synthesis of an enormous body of literature. Political Analysis does more than simply summarize previous work in comparative politics and international relations, it genuinely moves the debate forward. Whether or not one accepts Professor Hay's call for a constructivist institutionalism (and he offers many good reasons why we should) this is a book that all students of politics must take seriously.' - Sven Steinmo, University of Colorado, Boulder