Books by Robert E. Goodin
Professor Robert E. Goodin is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He was the founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and now of Political Philosophy and has served as Associate Editor of Ethics, coeditor of the British Journal of Political Science, General Editor of the 11-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science for Oxford University Press and the Theories of Institutional Design book series for Cambridge University Press. His co-authored book Discretionary Time won the 2009 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, awarded by the International Social Science Council. In 2022, he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, sometimes referred to as ‘the Nobel Prize of political science’.
Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
by Robert E. Goodin, James Mahmud Rice, Antti Parpo & Lina Eriksson
“I was having drinks with the editor of OUP, congratulating me on the success of the new handbook – ‘Wouldn’t you like to do some more?’ And I said, ‘Yes, okay. What about some handbooks for each sub-discipline of the field? I’ll get a specialist in each to organize them.’ These were all long books, and the market was American graduate schools. You have to sit field exams in three subfields of political science, and these handbooks would serve as a resource textbook for graduate students across the country. It worked out pretty well. Then, at the end of the day, I consolidated those ten handbooks into my one Oxford Handbook of Political Science by choosing four chapters from each. That’s how I produced my second overview of the discipline as a whole.” Read more...
The Best Political Science Books
Robert E. Goodin, Political Scientist
Interviews with Robert E. Goodin
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The American Voter
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The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by Mancur Olson -
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Graham Allison & Philip Zelikow -
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C Scott -
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Deliberation Naturalized: Improving Real Existing Deliberative Democracy
by Ana Tanasoca
The Best Political Science Books, recommended by Robert E. Goodin
The Best Political Science Books, recommended by Robert E. Goodin
Emerging in the middle of the last century, political science combines data and theory to help us understand the political world. Professor Robert E. Goodin, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Science and co-editor of The British Journal of Political Science, introduces five seminal works from major sub-disciplines. His choices are accessible starting points that open up new ways of thinking: from big data to deep case studies, these are five books that will help you to make sense of the world – and to change it.
Interviews where books by Robert E. Goodin were recommended
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1
The American Voter
by Angus Campbell et al. -
2
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
by Mancur Olson -
3
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Graham Allison & Philip Zelikow -
4
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C Scott -
5
Deliberation Naturalized: Improving Real Existing Deliberative Democracy
by Ana Tanasoca
The Best Political Science Books, recommended by Robert E. Goodin
The Best Political Science Books, recommended by Robert E. Goodin
Emerging in the middle of the last century, political science combines data and theory to help us understand the political world. Professor Robert E. Goodin, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Science and co-editor of The British Journal of Political Science, introduces five seminal works from major sub-disciplines. His choices are accessible starting points that open up new ways of thinking: from big data to deep case studies, these are five books that will help you to make sense of the world – and to change it.
