Table of Contents Analytical Perspectives, Analytical Controversies, What's Political about Political Science?, Beyond Structure versus Agency: Context versus Conduct, Continuity and Discontinuity in the Analysis of Political Change, Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualising Power, The Discursive and the Ideational in Contemporary Political Analysis: Beyond Materialism and Idealism, The Challenge of Postmodernism, Conclusion: Critical-Political- Analytical