Comparing nations : concepts, strategies, substance
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Comparing nations : concepts, strategies, substance
Blackwell, 1994
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: hbk ISBN 9780631186441
Description
This work suggests that comparative politics and sociology have not always been good examples of the successful combination of abstract theory and empirical data. In this contribution to these fields, a group of distinguished scholars address the theoretical, methodological, epistemological and substantive problems involved in cross-national research.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Strategies in Comparative Research, Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil. 1. Compare Why and How: Comparing, Miscomparing and the Comparative Method, Giovanni Sartori. 2. Use and Misuse of Statistics in Comparative Research - Limits to Quantification in Comparative Politics: The Gap Between Substance and Method, Mattei Dogan 3. Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective, Fred W. Riggs. 4. Binary Comparisons: American Exceptionalism - Japanese Uniqueness, Seymour Martin Lipset. 5. The Deviant Case in Comparative Analysis: High Stateness in a Muslim Society - The Case of Turkey, Ali Kazancigil. 6. Comparing Similar Countries: Problems of Conceptualization and Comparability in Latin America, John D. Martz. 7. Asynchronic Comparisons: Weak States in Post-Colonial Africa and Medieval Europe, Joshua B. Forrest. 8. The Pendulum Between Theory and Substance: Testing the Concepts of Legitimacy and Trust, Mattei Dogan.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631186458
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This highly original collection of essays, written by some of the world's best-known political scientists elucidates state-of-the-art methodological approaches to comparative politics.
Giovanni Sartori and Mattei Dogan examine the applicability and validity of statistical techniques in the field. Seymour Martin Lipset considers the effectiveness of binary comparisons while John D. Martz addresses similar questions in regard of multi-state comparisons in Latin America. John Forrest offers an `asynchronic comparison' of weak contemporary African States and similar in Medieval Europe. Ali Kazancigil looks at Turkey's `high stateness' as deviant, and Mattei Dogan concludes the volume with a consideration of the applicability of Weber's typology of legitimacy.
Table of Contents
Introdution: Strategies in Comparative Research (Mattei Dogan, French National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, and Ali Kazancigil, Division for the International Development of Social Sciences, UNESCO, Paris). 1. Compare Why and How: Comparing, Miscomparing and the Comparative Method: Giovanni Sartori, Columbia University, New York.
2. Use and Misuse of Statistics in Comparative Research: Limits to Quantification in Comparative Politics: The Gap between Substance and Method: Mattei Dogan, French National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris.
3. Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Fred W. Riggs, University of Hawaii.
4. Binary Comparisons: American Exceptionalism - Japanese Uniqueness: Seymour Martin Lipset, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
5. The Deviant Case in Comparative Analysis: High Stateness in a Muslim Society: The Case of Turkey: Ali Kazancigil, Division for the International Development of Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO, Paris.
6. Comparing Similiar Countries: Problems of Conceptualization and Comparability in Latin America: John D. Martz, Pennsylvania State University.
7. Asynchronic Comparisons: Weak States in Post-Colonial Africa and Medieval Europe: Joshua B. Forrest, University of Vermont.
8. The Pendulum Between Theory and Substance: Testing the Concepts of Legitimacy and Trust: Mattei Dogan, French National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris.
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