| Description |
xvi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
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Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Contents |
1. Paradigms and Pragmatism: Comparative Politics During the Past Decade / Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman -- 2. Thinking and Working in the Midst of Things: Discovery, Explanation, and Evidence in Comparative Politics / Mark Irving Lichbach -- 3. Advancing Explanation in Comparative Politics: Social Mechanisms, Endogenous Processes, and Empirical Rigor / Alan S. Zuckerman -- 4. Strong Theory, Complex History: Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics Revisited / Ira Katznelson -- 5. Reconsiderations of Rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis / Margaret Levi -- 6. Culture in Comparative Political Analysis / Marc Howard Ross -- 7. Researching the State / Joel S. Migdal -- 8. An Approach to Comparative Analysis or A Subfield Within a Subfield? Political Economy / Mark Blyth -- 9. The Global Context of Comparative Politics / Etel Solingen -- 10. Comparative Perspectives on Contentious Politics / Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly -- 11. Citizenship in Democratic Politics: Density Dependence and the Micro-Macro Divide / Robert Huckfeldt -- 12. Nested Citizens: Macropolitics and Microbehavior in Comparative Politics / Christopher J. Anderson -- 13. Back to the Future: Endogenous Institutions and Comparative Politics / Jonathan Rodden -- 14. The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State / Isabela Mares -- 15. Making Causal Claims About the Effect of "Ethnicity" / Kanchan Chandra |
| Summary |
This collection of essays reassesses rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches to comparative politics |
| Analysis |
Comparative government |
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Conferences |
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Overseas item |
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Political science |
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Research |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at a conference at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center in October 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-479) and indexes |
| Subject |
Comparative government -- Research -- Congresses.
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Political science -- Research -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Lichbach, Mark Irving, 1951-
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Zuckerman, Alan S., 1945-
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| LC no. |
2008016517 |
| ISBN |
0521712343 (paperback) |
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0521885159 (hbk.) |
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9780521712347 (paperback) |
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9780521885157 (hbk.) |
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