Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and StructureComparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure examines the major research traditions in comparative politics, assessing knowledge, advancing theory, and in the end seeking to direct research in the coming years. It begins by examining the three research schools that guide comparative politics: rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches. Margaret Levi, Marc Howard Ross, and Ira Katznelson offer briefs for each of the schools, presenting core principles, variations within each approach, and fresh combinations. A second set of authors then applies the research traditions to established fields of scholarship. Samuel H. Barnes examines work on mass politics, Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly synthesize studies of social movements and revolutions, Peter A. Hall contrasts new research on the political economy of established democracies, and Joel S. Migdal offers a new approach to studies of the state. |
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Contents
Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative Politics An Introduction | 3 |
Research Traditions in Comparative Politics | 17 |
A Model a Method and a Map Rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis | 19 |
Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis | 42 |
Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics | 81 |
Theory Development in Comparative Politics | 113 |
Electoral Behavior and Comparative Politics | 115 |
Toward an Integrated Perspective on Social Movements and Revolution | 142 |
The Role of Interests Institutions and Ideas in the Comparative Political Economy of the Industrialized Nations | 174 |
Studying the State | 208 |
Social Theory and Explanations in Comparative Politics | 237 |
Social Theory and Comparative Politics | 239 |
Reformulating Explanatory Standards and Advancing Theory in Comparative Politics | 277 |
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| Title | Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| Authors | Lichbach Mark Irving, Alan S. Zuckerman |
| Editors | Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman |
| Contributors | Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies (Brown University). Conference, Robert H. Bates, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Ellen Comisso, Peter Lange, Joel Migdal, Helen Milner |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521586682, 9780521586689 |
| Length | 321 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / Comparative Politics Political Science / General |
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