emThe Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysisem sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in the volume has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-scale quantitative modeling or explanations based on abstract, general, universal laws of human behavior. It shows that 'context matters' in a great many ways philosophical context matters psychological context matters cultural and historical contexts matter place, population, and technology all matter. By showcasing scholars who specialize in the analysis of all these contexts side-by-side, emThe Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysisem shows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account.br