The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics

by Todd Landman (Editor), Neil Robinson (Editor)

Overview

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics presents in one volume an authoritative overview of the theoretical, methodological, and substantive elements of comparative political science. The 28 specially commissioned chapters, written by renowned comparative scholars, guide the reader through the central issues and debates, presenting a state-of-the-art guide to the past, present, and possible futures of the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412919760
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/16/2009
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Todd Landman is a Reader in the Department of Government and Director of the Centre for Democratic Governance at the University of Essex. His research interests include human rights; international relations; and quantitative and qualitative political methodology. He is author of Studying Human Rights (Routledge 2006), Protecting Human Rights (Georgetown 2005), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge 2000, 2003, 2008); co-author of Measuring Human Rights (Routledge 2009), Governing Latin America (Polity 2003), and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements (Oxford 1997, 2000); and co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (2009). He has also authored numerous articles, reports, review essays, book notes, and other publications, reviews manuscripts for numerous peer-reviewed journals, and serves on the editorial board of Human Rights and Human Welfare and The Journal of Latin American Studies.

Neil Robinson BA (CNAA), MA, Ph D (Essex) is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS). Prior to his appointment at Limerick he taught at the universities of York and Essex. His research interests focus on Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author of Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse,( Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995), and Russia: a state of uncertainty, (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), co-author (with Karen Henderson) of Post-communist politics, (London: Prentice Hall, 1997). He is the editor or co-editor of Institutions and political change in Russia, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), (Aidan Hehir) State-building. Theory and practice, (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), and (with Todd Landman), The Sage handbook of comparative politics, (London: Sage, 2009), and The political economy of Russia, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) . He is the author of several book chapters and journal articles in, among other places, Soviet Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Review of International Political Economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Todd Landman and Neil Robinson
PART ONE: METHODS AND FIELDS OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS
The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research - Charles C Ragin and Claude Rubinson
Global Comparative Methods - Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis
Case Studies - Darren Hawkins
Is there a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing - James A Caporaso
Establishing Equivalence - Jan W van Deth
Comparative Political Sociology - Willfried Spohn
Comparative Institutional Analysis - Vivien A Schmidt
Comparative Political Economy - Thomas Pl mper
The Contribution of Area Studies - Stephen E Hanson
Comparative Politics and International Relations - John M Hobson
PART TWO: CLASSIC ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Postindustrial Democracies: Political economy and democratic partisan competition - Herbert Kitschelt
Government Formation - Wolfgang C M ller
Institutional Design - Josep M Colomer
Comparative Political Behaviour: What is being compared? - Shaun Bowler
Changes in the Causes of Democratization through Time - Barbara Geddes
Political Culture - Christian Welzel
Revolution - Jack A Goldstone
Social Movements - Vincent Boudreau and David S Meyer
Corruption - Paul Heywood
PART THREE: NEW AND EMERGING ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Electoral Authoritarianism - Andreas Schedler
Electoral Corruption - Sarah Birch
Comparative Federalism - David Mc Kay
Human Rights - Todd Landman
Governance - Philip Keefer
Terrorism - Jennifer S Holmes
Comparative Regional Integration and Regionalism - Fredrik Söderbaum
Transitional Justice - Paola Cesarini
The globalization of comparative public opinion research - Pippa Norris

Editorial Reviews

'Editors Landman and Robinson have compiled an excellent tour d'horizon of comparative politics. Distinguished contributors explore theoretical and methodological issues as well as examine the critical substantive domains that animate today's comparativists. Graduate students and academics will want to keep this volume on their book shelf' - Professor Mark Irving Lichbach, University of Maryland

'The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is a major new resource for scholars of comparative politics, and of political science more generally. The Handbook covers the field with admirable thoroughness, but does not sacrifice depth for breadth. The chapters are written by notable scholars who provide rich discussions of their topics, and help to move the sub-discipline forward' - B. Guy Peters, Professor, University of Pittsburgh

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