Comparative politics : rationality, culture, and structure
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Comparative politics : rationality, culture, and structure
(Cambridge studies in comparative politics)
Cambridge University Press, 1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 61 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Based on papers presented at a conference at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, May 4-5, 1996
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book reassesses the research schools 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. The first set of contributors offer briefs for each of the schools, presenting core principles, variations within each approach, and fresh combinations. A second set of authors applies the research schools to established fields of scholarship. The concluding section contains essays by the editors, returning the focus to the theme of advanced theory in comparative politics.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Research traditions and theory in comparative politics: an introduction Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman
- Part II. Research Traditions in Comparative Politics: 2. A model, a method, and a map: rational choice in comparative and historical analysis Margaret Levi
- 3. Culture and identity in comparative political analysis Marc Howard Ross
- 4. Structure and configuration in comparative politics Ira Katznelson
- Part III. Theory Development in Comparative Politics: 5. Electoral behaviour and comparative politics Samuel H. Barnes
- 6. Towards an integrated persepctive on social movements Doug McAdams, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly
- 7. The role of interests, institutions and ideals in the comparative political economy of the industrialized nations Peter A. Hall
- 8. Studying the state Joel S. Migdal
- Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Social theory and comparative politics Mark Irving Lichbach
- 10. Reformulating explanation and advancing theory in comparative politics Alan S. Zuckerman.
by "Nielsen BookData"