Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mahoney, James

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Produktbeschreibung

This book systematically investigates the past accomplishments and future agendas of contemporary comparative-historical analysis. Its core essays explore three major issues: the accumulation of knowledge in the field over the past three decades, the analytic tools used to study temporal process and historical patterns, and the methodologies available for making inferences and for building theories. The introductory and concluding essays situate the field as a whole by comparing it to alternative approaches within the social sciences. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, and it will represent a challenge to many other social scientists - especially those who have raised skeptical concerns about comparative-historical analysis in the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107710757
• Artikelnr.: 40147638

Inhaltsangabe

1. Comparative-historical analysis: achievements and agendas James Mahoney
and Dietrich Rueschemeyer; Part I. Accumulation of Research: 2.
Comparative-historical analysis and knowledge accumulation in the study of
revolutions Jack A. Goldstone; 3. What we know about the development of
social policy: comparative and historical research in comparative and
historical perspective Edwin Amenta; 4. Knowledge accumulation in
comparative-historical research: the case of democracy and authoritarianism
James Mahoney; Part II. Analytic Tools: 5. Big, slow-moving, and ...
invisible: macro-social processes in the study of comparative politics Paul
Pierson; 6. How institutions evolve: insights from comparative-historical
analysis Kathleen Thelen; 7. Uses of network tools in
comparative-historical research Roger V. Gould; 8. Periodization and
preferences: reflections on purposive action in comparative-historical
social science Ira Katznelson; Part III: Issues of Method: 9. Can one or a
few cases yield gains? Dietrich Rueschemeyer; 10. Strategies of causal
assessment in comparative-historical analysis James Mahoney; 11. Aligning
ontology and methodology in comparative politics; 12. Doubly engaged social
science: the promise of comparative-historical analysis Theda Skocpol.