| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 497 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 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 |
| Summary |
This collection of essays reassesses rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches to comparative politics |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at a conference at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center in October 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| 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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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lichbach, Mark Irving, 1951-
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Zuckerman, Alan S., 1945-
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| ISBN |
051147783X (electronic bk.) |
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0511804008 (electronic bk.) |
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1139129678 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511477836 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511804007 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139129671 (electronic bk.) |
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(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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