Self-enforcing political systems and economic growth: late medieval Genoa / Avner Greif -- The political economy of absolutism reconsidered / Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- Conscription: The price of citizenship / Margaret Levi -- Political stability and civil war: institutions, commitment and American democracy / Barry R. Weingast -- The International Coffee Organization: an international institution / Robert H. Bates
Summary
How can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In this volume, five senior scholars offer a methodological response to this question. The result is both a methodological manifesto and an applied handbook
