The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis 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, The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis shows how political scientists can take those crucial contextual factors systematically into account.

牛津语境政治分析手册》首次对那些对政治世界进行更精细的定性分析的政治科学方法进行了综合和批判。本书中的工作有一个共同的目标，那就是对那些在大规模定量建模或基于人类行为的抽象、一般、普遍规律的解释中消失的背景细微差别的思考保持敏感。它表明，"背景很重要 "的方式有很多：哲学背景很重要；心理学背景很重要；文化和历史背景很重要；地方、人口和技术都很重要。通过展示专门分析所有这些背景的学者，《牛津背景政治分析手册》展示了政治学家如何系统地考虑这些关键的背景因素。