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The Oxford Handbook of
PHILOSOPHY
OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE
The Oxford Handbook of
PHILOSOPHY
OF POLITICAL
SCIENCE
Edited by
HA R O L D K I N C A I D
and
J E R O E N VA N B OU W E L
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kincaid, Harold, 1952– editor. | Bouwel, Jeroen van, editor.
Title: The Oxford handbook of philosophy of political science /
[edited by Harold Kincaid and Jeroen Van Bouwel].
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029518 (print) | LCCN 2022029519 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780197519806 (hardback) | ISBN 9780197519820 (epub) |
ISBN 9780197519837
Subjects: LCSH: Political science—Philosophy.
Classification: LCC JA71 .O947 2022 (print) | LCC JA71 (ebook) |
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DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197519806.001.0001
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
Printed by Marquis, Canada
Harold:
To Don Ross, for many years of intellectual inspiration and friendship
Jeroen:
To my parents, Marie-Thérèse Greefs and Jo Van Bouwel,
for supporting me unconditionally.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes xiii
List of Contributors xv
PA RT 1 . A NA LY Z I N G BA SIC F R A M E WOR K S
I N P OL I T IC A L S C I E N C E
PA RT 2 . M E T HOD S I N P OL I T IC A L S C I E N C E ,
DE BAT E S , A N D R E C ON C I L IAT ION S
PA RT 3 . P U R P O SE S A N D U SE S
OF P OL I T IC A L S C I E N C E
PA RT 4 . P OL I T IC A L S C I E N C E I N S O C I E T Y:
VA LU E S , E X P E RT I SE , A N D P RO G R E S S
Index 587
Acknowledgments
Special thanks go to Amy Mazur who provided enthusiastic support for this Philosophy
of Political Science (PoPS) project and helped organize and fund the workshop held at
Washington State University in the fall of 2019, at which a major subset of the chapters was
presented. We thank the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (Steven Stehr,
Director), Foley Institute of Public Policy (Cornell Clayton, Director), and the Claudius
O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professorship of Political Science for funding along
with the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, as well as the Faculty of Arts and
Philosophy, Ghent University. Also, thanks to Sofia Blanco Sequeiros, Francesco Guala,
and Erik Angner for their reviewing work, and to all the contributors to the volume, almost
all of whom also did some reviewing, which was one way to increase interactions between
political scientists and philosophers. Jeroen would like to thank his sons Adrian and Max
for their entertainment (especially during the COVID-19 lockdowns) and Linnéa for con-
tinuing encouragement and support.
List of Figures, Tables and B oxes
Figures
3.1 A preliminary characterization of the phenomena 39
3.2 Hibbing, Smith, and Alford—a rough sketch of the mechanism 45
3.3 Diagram of the refined sketch 50
4.1 Coleman’s boat 64
5.1 The socialization, diffusion, and deduction process 101
5.2 Prelec mapping functions: (a) random Prelec functions, (b) average Prelec
function 111
6.1 A symmetric coordination game 124
18.1 Articles in JEPS, 2014–2019 357
18.2 The holism of testing and simultaneous isolation of blame and credit 362
18.3 The payoff-dominance critique 365
19.1 A framework for thinking about explaining clientelism 405
23.1 Mapping the Integrative Feminism Approach 479
Tables
5.1 Harmony simulation results 113
5.2 Pluralistic ignorance simulation results 114
5.3 Activist/trendsetter simulation results 115
6.1 RCI and its possible extensions for political science 132
8.1 Taxonomy of Theories about Social Mechanisms 169
14.1 Basic setup 285
14.2 Relative versus absolute generalizations: balance of power theory 286
14.3 Inequality and democratization: absolute test 290
14.4 Inequality, mobilization, democratization: token causal inference and causal
mechanism tests 292
18.1 Review of lab experiments in the economic tradition in JEPS 372
23.1 International comparative feminist policy research projects 1995 to the present 472
27.1 Central hypotheses in the democratic peace debate 555
xiv List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
27.2 Realist and liberal theories’ factors affecting war and peace 563
27.3 Points of contention between naturalism and antinaturalist constructivisms 570
27.4 Disagreement on meta-theory among most influential figures in realism and
liberalism 577
27.5 Key scientific realist and empiricist criteria used by top dozen political realist
and liberal authors 578
List of Boxes
2.1 Heritability 26
2.2 Heritability, causation, and malleability 27
List of Contributors
Gary Goertz is Professor of Political Science at the Kroc Center for International Peace
Studies at Notre Dame University. He is the author or editor of nine books and more than
fifty articles and chapters on topics of international institutions, methodology, and con-
flict studies. His methodological research focuses on concepts and measurement along
with set theoretic approaches, including “Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and
Necessary Condition Counterfactuals,” (2007), “Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory
and Methodology” (2008), “A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research
in the Social Sciences” (2012), and “Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and
Case Studies: The Research Triad” (2017). The completely revised and rewritten edition
of his (2005) concept book “Social science concepts and measurement” was published by
Princeton in 2020.
Stephan Haggard is Krause Distinguished Professor at the School of Global Policy and
Strategy at the University of California San Diego. His publications on international polit-
ical economy include Pathways from the Periphery: The Newly Industrializing Countries in
the International System (Cornell University Press, 1990); The Political Economy of the Asian
Financial Crisis (Institute for International Economics, 2000); and Developmental States
(Cambridge University Press, 2018). His work with Robert Kaufman on democratization, ine-
quality, and social policy includes The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (Princeton
University Press, 1995); Democracy, Development and Welfare States: Latin America, East
Asia, Eastern Europe (Princeton, 2008); Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites and Regime
Change (Princeton, 2016) and Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
(Cambridge, 2020). His work on North Korea with Marcus Noland includes Famine in North
Korea (Columbia University Press, 2007); Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into
North Korea (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011); and Hard Target: Sanctions,
Inducements and the Case of North Korea (Stanford University Press, 2017).
David Henderson is Robert R. Chambers Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln. His research interests include the philosophy of social science and
epistemology—and the present work brings together these interests. His works include
Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Sciences (State University of New York Press,
1993) and (with Terry Horgan) The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive
Science and Conceptual Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2011). Recent work has been
focused on social norms and epistemic norms— for example, “Are Epistemic Norms
Fundamentally Social Norms?” (Episteme, 2020). He coedited and contributed to The
Routledge Handbook in Social Epistemology (2019, with Miranda Fricker, David Henderson,
Peter Graham, and Nikolaj Pedersen) and (with John Greco) Epistemic Evaluation: Point
and Purpose in Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Catherine Herfeld is an assistant professor of social theory and philosophy of the social
sciences at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research falls into the fields of philos-
ophy and history of the social sciences, in particular economics.
Season Hoard is Associate Professor jointly appointed in the School of Politics, Philosophy,
and Public Affairs and the Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS) at
Washington State University. She has a PhD in political science from Washington State
University, and her areas of expertise include gender and politics, comparative politics,
public policy, and applied social science research. Dr. Hoard helps provide applied research
List of Contributors xvii
and program evaluation support for governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations
in the United States. She has numerous publications focused on applied research methods
and public policy, including recent publications in American Political Science Review,
Community Development, Politics and Life Sciences, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Biomass
and Bioenergy and the International Journal of Aviation Management.
Andre Hofmeyr is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University
of Cape Town, and the Director of the Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and
Neuroeconomics (RUBEN). He is an experimental economist who specializes in deci-
sion theory, game theory, experimental economic methodology, and structural economet-
rics. He is an associate editor of Cognitive Processing, and has recently published articles
in Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of
Economic Methodology, and Southern Economic Journal, along with a commentary forth-
coming in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Laci Hubbard Mattix is Assistant Professor (career track) in the School of Politics,
Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. She specializes in political
theory and philosophy. Her work intersects critical theory, feminist theory, and ethics.
She has published numerous book chapters on these issues as well as articles in Essays in
Philosophy and Transportation in the City.
María Jiménez-Buedo is an associate professor at the Department of Logic, History and
Philosophy of Science at UNED in Madrid. She works in the philosophy of the social sci-
ences, with an emphasis on methodological issues. Her recent work focuses on experi-
mental methods in the social sciences.
Peter John is Professor of Public Policy at King’s College London. He is interested in how
to involve citizens in public policy and in randomized controlled trials. His books include
Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy (Routledge, 2017), How Far to Nudge
(Edward Elgar, 2018), and his coauthored Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think Experimenting with
Ways to Change Citizen Behaviour (Manchester University Press, 2019, 2nd ed.).
Jonathan Michael Kaplan is a professor in the philosophy program at Oregon State
University, where he has taught since 2003. His primary research areas are political philos-
ophy and the philosophy of biology. Recently, he has worked on the relationship between
contemporary genomic technologies and arguments surrounding claims about the biolog-
ical nature of human “races,” as well as on issues emerging from recent research on the so-
cial determinants of health.
Harold Kincaid is Emeritus Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape
Town. His research concerns issues in the philosophy of science and philosophy of social
and behavioral science as well as experimental work in economics on, among other things,
risk and time attitudes, trust and addiction. He is the author or editor of thirteen books
(starting with The Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies
in Social Research, Cambridge, 1996) and many journal articles and book chapters. Recent or
forthcoming work includes the Elgar Companion to Philosophy of Economics with Don Ross
(Elgar, 2021) and articles or book chapters on objectivity in the social sciences, improving
causal inference in economics, the role of mechanisms in the social sciences, agent-based
models, classifying mental disorders, the risk-trust confound, and prospect theory.
xviii List of Contributors
the methodology of nonlaboratory sciences. He was founding coeditor of the Elements se-
ries in Philosophy of Science (Cambridge University Press), and is Honorary Secretary of
the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
Miquel Pellicer is Professor for Inequality and Poverty at the University of Marburg. He
works on inequality, political behavior, and development. His articles have appeared, among
others, in Perspectives on Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Political Research
Quarterly, and the Journal of Development Economics.
Julian Reiss is Professor and Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method at
Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is the author of Error in Economics (2008), Philosophy
of Economics (2013), Causation, Evidence, and Inference (2015), and seventy journal arti-
cles and book chapters on topics in general philosophy of science and philosophy of the
biomedical and social sciences. He is a past president of the International Network for
Economic Method (INEM).
Benoît Rihoux is a full professor in comparative politics at the University of Louvain
(UCLouvain, Belgium), where he chairs the Centre for Political Science and Comparative
Politics (CESPOL). His substantive research interests comprise among others political
parties, political behavior, organizational change, social movements, gender and politics,
and professional ethics. He plays a leading role in the development of configurational com-
parative methods and QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) and coordinates the inter-
disciplinary COMPASSS global network (http://www.compasss.org) in that field. He has
published multiple pieces around QCA: review pieces, empirical applications in diverse
fields, and a reference textbook (Sage, 2009; with Charles Ragin). He is also strongly in-
volved in research methods training as joint Academic Coordinator of MethodsNET, the
Methods Excellence Network (https://www.methodsnet.org/home).
Don Ross is Professor and Head of the School of Society, Politics, and Ethics, University
College Cork (Ireland); Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town
(South Africa); and Program Director for Methodology at the Center for Economic
Analysis of Risk, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University (United States).
His current areas of research are the experimental economics of risk and time preferences;
the economics of addiction and gambling; economic behavior in nonhuman animals;
scientific metaphysics; and economic optimization of road networks in Africa. He is the
author of many articles and chapters, and author or editor of fourteen books, including
Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press, 2005); Every Thing
Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised (with James Ladyman, Oxford University Press, 2007);
and Philosophy of Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is currently writing a book on
the evolution of human risk management (with Glenn Harrison) and another on general-
ization of conditional game theory for application to economic choice experiments (with
Wynn Stirling).
Federica Russo is a philosopher of science and technology based at the University of
Amsterdam. She has a long-standing interest in social science methodology, and she wrote
extensively about causal modelling, explanation, and evidence in the social, biomedical,
and policy sciences. Among her contributions, Causality and Causal Modelling in the
Social Sciences. Measuring Variations (Springer, 2009), Causality: Philosophical Theory
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