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“This volume offers a completely revised, updated and exciting version of the well-known volume published by Mark Lichbach and Alan Zuckerman a few years ago. Both editors have recruited a cast of outstanding scholars to offer a balanced and deep discussion of the main avenues of research in empirical political science. There is truly a lot to learn from this new Comparative Politics!”-Carles Boix, Princeton University
“Assembling an impressive array of key players in contemporary theory and research of the various subfields of Comparative Politics (from institutionalism to political behavior and political economy), this book is a timely and highly welcome update of one of the best treatments of central issues of contemporary political science. Organized along the distinction between the rational choice paradigm with its emphasis on reasoned agency, the cultural paradigm, with its emphasis on rules, norms, and identities, and the structural paradigm which focuses on institutions, the book not only carves out the major positions that inform today’s theoretical debate in Comparative Politics; it also evaluates their respective merits and problems, and identifies their complementarities. It is unique in that it highlights not only the big theoretical issues of the discipline, but also delves deeply into their epistemological and methodological implications and ramifications. Most remarkable is the understanding of politics as a multi-level phenomenon that guides many of the volume’s chapters.”
-Rudiger Schmitt-Beck, University of Manheim, Germany
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Alan S. Zuckerman is Professor of Political Science at Brown, University. Zuckerman's scholarship has focused on the analytical principles of comparative politics; the social context of political preferences, choice, and behavior; the individual and the state in established democracies; and the political structure of small groups. He is also the author, coauthor, editor, and co-editor of several books, including most recently Partisan Families: the Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain (2007) and The Social Logic of Politics: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior (2005). He has also published numerous articles in the leading journals of political science, as well as monographs in the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Israel.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgment
Contributors
Pt. I Introduction 1
Ch. 1 Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative Politics: An Introduction Mark I. Lichbach Lichbach, Mark I. Alan S. Zuckerman Zuckerman, Alan S. 3
Pt. II Research Traditions in Comparative Politics 17
Ch. 2 A Model, a Method, and a Map: Rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis Margaret Levi Levi, Margaret 19
Ch. 3 Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis Marc Howard Ross Ross, Marc Howard 42
Ch. 4 Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics Ira Katznelson Katznelson, Ira 81
Pt. III Theory Development in Comparative Politics 113
Ch. 5 Electoral Behavior and Comparative Politics Samuel H. Barnes Barnes, Samuel H. 115
Ch. 6 Toward an Integrated Perspective on Social Movements and Revolution Doug McAdam McAdam, Doug Sidney Tarrow Tarrow, Sidney Charles Tilly Tilly, Charles 142
Ch. 7 The Role of Interests, Institutions, and Ideas in the Comparative Political Economy of the Industrialized Nations Peter A. Hall Hall, Peter A. 174
Ch. 8 Studying the State Joel S. Migdal Migdal, Joel S. 208
Pt. IV Social Theory and Explanations in Comparative Politics 237
Ch. 9 Social Theory and Comparative Politics Mark I. Lichbach Lichbach, Mark I. 239
Ch. 10 Reformulating Explanatory Standards and Advancing Theory in Comparative Politics Alan S. Zuckerman Zuckerman, Alan S. 277
Subject Index 311
Author Index 313