I’ve now sent the manuscript of Methods in Analytical Political Theory to Cambridge University Press.

Each chapter gives ‘how-to’ advice, explaining how to use the method or approach being discussed.

The lineup is as follows:

1. Introduction: a ‘how-to’ approach (Adrian Blau, King’s College London)
2. How to write analytical political theory (Robert Goodin, ANU)
3. Thought experiments (Kimberley Brownlee, Warwick, and Zofia Stemplowska, Oxford)
4. Reflective equilibrium (Carl Knight, Glasgow)
5. Contractualism (Jonathan Quong, USC)
6. Moral sentimentalism (Michael Frazer, University of East Anglia)
7. Realism (Robert Jubb, Reading)
8. Realistic idealism (David Schmidtz, Arizona)
9. Conceptual analysis (Johan Olsthoorn, KU Leuven)
10. Positive political theory (Alan Hamlin, Manchester and King’s College London)
11. Rational choice theory (Brian Kogelmann, Arizona, and Gerald Gaus, Arizona)
12. Interpreting texts (Adrian Blau, King’s College London)
13. Comparative political thought (Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt, and Rochana Bajpai, SOAS)
14. Ideological analysis (Jonathan Leader Maynard, Oxford)
15. How to do a political theory PhD (Robert Goodin, ANU, and Keith Dowding, ANU)

The book should be out in 2017.