Political Analysis

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.

• Analytical Perspectives, Analytical ControversiesWhat's Political about Political Science?Beyond Structure versus Agency: Context versus ConductContinuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political ChangeDivided by a Common Language? Conceptualising PowerThe Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary Political Analysis: Beyond Materialism and IdealismThe Challenge of PostmodernismConclusion: CriticalPoliticalAnalytical.

'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