Mark Irving Lichbach

Comparative Politics (eBook, PDF)

Rationality, Culture, and Structure

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Produktbeschreibung

Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal research. Mark Lichbach begins with a review of discovery, explanation and evidence and Alan Zuckerman argues for explanations with social mechanisms. Ira Katznelson, writing on structuralist analyses, Margaret Levi on rational choice theory, and Marc Ross on culturalist analyses, assess developments in the field's research schools. Subsequent chapters explore the relationship among the paradigms and current research: the state, culturalist themes and political economy, the international context of comparative politics, contentious politics, multi-level analyses, nested voters, endogenous institutions, welfare states, and ethnic politics. The volume offers a rigorous and exciting assessment of the past decade of scholarship in comparative politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511474590
• Artikelnr.: 38216454

Autorenporträt

Mark Irving Lichbach is Professor and Chair of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. A theorist interested in social choice and a comparativist interested in globalization, Lichbach explores the connections between collective action theories and political conflict as well as the connections between collective choice theories and democratic institutions. He is the author or editor of many books, including the award-winning The Rebel's Dilemma, and of numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly journals in political science, economics, and sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Paradigms and pragmatism: comparative politics during the past decade
Mark I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman; 2. Thinking and working: 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 Ross; 7. Researching the state Joel S.
Migdal; 8. An approach to comparative analysis, or a sub-field within a
sub-field? 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. 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.