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Despite my general agreement with Agnew‘s remarks, I shall focus for the remainder of
this paper on some remaining areas where an alternative perspective might be useful. My
argument is that politicall,reoliirupber.s should not be so concerned luith demonstrating that
context mattet:s. My reasoning is based on three arguments. First. in fact context rarely
c‘ounts (Section 1) and, second, the most productive practical goal for political researchers
should be to show that it does not count (Section 2). Finally, a disproportionate focus on
‘context counting‘ can’ lead, and has led. to sbme serious problems in practical research
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