Comparative Politics : Rationality, Culture, and Structure.

Completely revised, the second edition of Comparative Politics offers an assessment of the past decade of scholarship in comparative politics.

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Main Author: Lichbach, Mark Irving
Other Authors: Zuckerman, Alan S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Paradigms and Pragmatism: Comparative Politics during the Past Decade; 2 Thinking and Working in the Midst of Things: Discovery, Explanation, and Evidence in Comparative Politics; 3 Advancing Explanation in Comparative Politics: Social Mechanisms, Endogenous Processes, and Empirical Rigor; 4 Strong Theory, Complex History: Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics Revisited; 5 Reconsiderations of Rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis.
  • 6 Culture in Comparative Political Analysis7 Researching the State; 8 An Approach to Comparative Analysis or a Subfield within a Subfield?: Political Economy; 9 The Global Context of Comparative Politics; 10 Comparative Perspectives on Contentious Politics; 11 Citizenship in Democratic Politics: Density Dependence and the Micro-Macro Divide; 12 Nested Citizens: Macropolitics and Microbehavior in Comparative Politics; 13 Back to th.