Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 5/14/2009
EAN 9780521712347, ISBN10: 0521712343
Paperback, 520 pages, 23.5 x 15.6 x 3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal research. Mark Lichbach begins with a review of discovery, explanation and evidence and Alan Zuckerman argues for explanations with social mechanisms. Ira Katznelson, writing on structuralist analyses, Margaret Levi on rational choice theory, and Marc Ross on culturalist analyses, assess developments in the field's research schools. Subsequent chapters explore the relationship among the paradigms and current research: the state, culturalist themes and political economy, the international context of comparative politics, contentious politics, multi-level analyses, nested voters, endogenous institutions, welfare states, and ethnic politics. The volume offers a rigorous and exciting assessment of the past decade of scholarship in comparative politics.
1. Paradigms and pragmatism
comparative politics during the past decade Mark I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman
2. Thinking and working
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 Ross
7. Researching the state Joel S. Migdal
8. An approach to comparative analysis, or a sub-field within a sub-field? 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. 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.