Comparative politics : rationality, culture, and structure / / edited by Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S Zuckerman

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 2nd ed., Completely rev., updated.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 497 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320.3
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Research; Comparative government - Research
• Altri autori: LichbachMark Irving <1951-> ZuckermanAlan S. <1945->
• Note generali: Based on papers presented at a conference at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center in October 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-479) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Paradigms and pragmatism : comparative politics during the past decade / Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman -- Thinking and working in the midst of things : discovery, explanation, and evidence in comparative politics / Mark Irving Lichbach -- Advancing explanation in comparative politics : social mechanisms, endogenous processes, and empirical rigor / Alan S. Zuckerman -- Strong theory, complex history : structure and configuration in comparative politics revisited / Ira Katznelson -- Reconsiderations of rational choice in comparative and historical analysis / Margaret Levi -- Culture in comparative political analysis / Marc Ross -- Researching the state / Joel S. Migdal -- An approach to comparative analysis or a subfield within a subfield? Political economy / Mark Blyth -- The global context of comparative politics / Etel Solingen -- Comparative perspectives on contentious politics / Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly -- Citizenship in democratic politics : density dependence and the micro-macro divide / Robert Huckfeldt -- Macropolitics and microbehavior in comparative politics / Christopher J. Anderson -- Back to the future : endogenous institutions and comparative politics / Jonathan Rodden -- The comparative political economy of the welfare state / Isabela Mares -- Making causal claims about the effect of "ethnicity" / Kanchan Chandra.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparative politics
• ISBN: 0-511-73758-0; 1-107-20049-0; 1-283-33021-0; 9786613330215; 1-139-13472-8; 0-511-80400-8; 1-139-12967-8; 1-139-13360-8; 0-511-47783-X; 0-511-47935-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811093403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in comparative politics.