Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Contingency's Challenge to Political Science -- 1. From Fortune to Feedback: Contingency and the Birth of Modern Political Science -- 2. Mapping Contingency -- 3. Resilience as the Explanandum of Social Theory -- 4. Events as Causes: The Case of American Politics -- 5. Contingent Public Policies and Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policies -- 6. Region, Contingency, and Democratization -- 7. Contingency, Politics, and the Nature of Inquiry: Why Non-Events Matter -- 8. Modeling Contingency -- 9. When Democracy Complicates Peace: How Democratic Contingencies Affect Negotiated Settlements -- 10. Contingency in Biophysical Research -- Contributors -- Index