Comparative politics : rationality, culture, and structure / edited by Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Lichbach, Mark Irving, 1951-

Zuckerman, Alan S., 1945-

01-01-2009

xvi, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

2nd ed.

Cambridge studies in comparative politics.

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Comparative government

Political science

Research

Conferences

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Political science -- Research -- Congresses.

Comparative government -- Research -- Congresses.

Based on papers presented at a conference at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center in October 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-479) and indexes.

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1. Paradigms and Pragmatism: Comparative Politics During the Past Decade / Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman -- 2. Thinking and Working in the Midst of Things: 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 Howard Ross -- 7. Researching the State / Joel S. Migdal -- 8. An Approach to Comparative Analysis or A Subfield Within a Subfield? 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. Nested Citizens: 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.

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