The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics

Zusatztext This comprehensive work...provides a thorough and contemporary examination of the field of comparative politics and various central questions within it...there is more than enough material here (including detailed references) to keep scholars and bring graduate students completely up to date; indeed the analyses are often cutting edge. Lastly, inasmuch as this handbook series aspires to shape the discipline and not just describe it, many chapters in this handbook usefully conclude with a precise outline of the future research agenda as seen by the author. Informationen zum Autor Carles Boix is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He has written the books Political Parties, Growth and Equality (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Both books won the American Political Science Association Award for the best book on political economy. Boix has also published articles in leading journals such American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, International Organization, and World Politics. Susan Stokes: PhD, Stanford University, 1988. John S. Saden Professor of Political Science and director of the Yale Program on Democracy. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. INTRODUCTION 1: Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes: Introduction Part II. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY 2: Robert J. Franzese Jr: Multicausality, Context-Conditionality, and Endogeneity in Comparative Politics 3: James Mahoney and Celso M. Villegas: Historical Inquiry and Comparative Politics 4: John Gerring: The Case Study: What it is and What it Does 5: Elisabeth Jean Wood: Field Research 6: Adam Przeworski: Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible? 7: Robert H. Bates: From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research 8: Elinor Ostrom: Collective Action Theory Part III. STATES AND STATE FORMATION: POLITICAL CONSENT 9: Hendrick Spruyt: War, Trade and State Formation 10: Russell Hardin: Compliance, Consent, and Legitimacy 11: Liah Greenfeld and Jonathan Eastwood: National Identity 12: Ashutosh Varshney: Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicy Part IV. POLITICAL REGIMES AND TRANSITIONS 13: Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart: Mass Beliefs 14: Barbara Geddes: #What Causes Democratization? 15: Filippo Sabetti: Democracy and Civic Culture 16: Ronald Wintrobe: Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches Part V. POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POLITICAL CONFLICT 17: Steven Pincus: Rethinking Revolutions: A Neo-Torquevillian Perpective 18: Stathis N. Kalyvas: Civil Wars 19: Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly: Contentious Politics and Social Movements 20: Mark I. Lichbach and Helma G. E. de Vries: Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements Part VI. MASS POLITICAL MOBILIZATION 21: Carles Boix: Emergence of Parties and Party Systems 22: Herbert Kitschelt: Party Systems 23: Anne Wren and Kenneth M. McElwain: Voters and Parties 24: Frances Hagopian: Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies 25: Susan C. Stokes: Political Clientelism 26: Pippa Norris: Politi...

List of contents

• Part I. INTRODUCTION


• 1: Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes: Introduction


• Part II. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY


• 2: Robert J. Franzese Jr: Multicausality, Context-Conditionality, and Endogeneity in Comparative Politics


• 3: James Mahoney and Celso M. Villegas: Historical Inquiry and Comparative Politics


• 4: John Gerring: The Case Study: What it is and What it Does


• 5: Elisabeth Jean Wood: Field Research


• 6: Adam Przeworski: Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible?


• 7: Robert H. Bates: From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research


• 8: Elinor Ostrom: Collective Action Theory


• Part III. STATES AND STATE FORMATION: POLITICAL CONSENT


• 9: Hendrick Spruyt: War, Trade and State Formation


• 10: Russell Hardin: Compliance, Consent, and Legitimacy


• 11: Liah Greenfeld and Jonathan Eastwood: National Identity


• 12: Ashutosh Varshney: Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicy


• Part IV. POLITICAL REGIMES AND TRANSITIONS


• 13: Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart: Mass Beliefs


• 14: Barbara Geddes: #What Causes Democratization?


• 15: Filippo Sabetti: Democracy and Civic Culture


• 16: Ronald Wintrobe: Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches


• Part V. POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POLITICAL CONFLICT


• 17: Steven Pincus: Rethinking Revolutions: A Neo-Torquevillian Perpective


• 18: Stathis N. Kalyvas: Civil Wars


• 19: Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly: Contentious Politics and Social Movements


• 20: Mark I. Lichbach and Helma G. E. de Vries: Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements


• Part VI. MASS POLITICAL MOBILIZATION


• 21: Carles Boix: Emergence of Parties and Party Systems


• 22: Herbert Kitschelt: Party Systems


• 23: Anne Wren and Kenneth M. McElwain: Voters and Parties


• 24: Frances Hagopian: Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies


• 25: Susan C. Stokes: Political Clientelism


• 26: Pippa Norris: Political Activism: New Challenges, New Opportunities


• Part VII. PROCESSING POLITICAL DEMANDS


• 27: G. Bingham Powell Jr.: Aggregating and Representing Political Preferences


• 28: Rein Taagepera: Electoral Systems


• 29: David Samuels: Separation of Powers


• 30: John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth and Charles Shipan: Comparative Judicial Politics


• 31: Pablo Beramendi: Federalism


• 32: Kaare Strom and Benjamin Nyblade: Coalition Theory and Government Formation


• Part VIII. GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE


• 33: Raymond M. Duch: Comparative Studies of the Economy and the Vote


• 34: James E. Alt and Shanna S. Rose: Context-Conditional Political Budget Cycles


• 35: Matthew E. Carnes and Isabela Mares: The Welfare State in Global Per

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  This comprehensive work...provides a thorough and contemporary examination of the field of comparative politics and various central questions within it...there is more than enough material here (including detailed references) to keep scholars and bring graduate students completely up to date; indeed the analyses are often cutting edge. Lastly, inasmuch as this handbook series aspires to shape the discipline and not just describe it, many chapters in this handbook usefully conclude with a precise outline of the future research agenda as seen by the author. Alan Siaroff Politics Studies Review

Product details

• Authors: Carles Boix, Carles Stokes Boix, Susan C. Stokes
• Assisted by: Carles Boix (Editor), Boix Carles (Editor), Susan C. Stokes (Editor), Stokes Susan C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780199566020
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956602-0
• No. of pages: 1040
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 51 mm
• Series: Oxford Handbooks; The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science; Oxford Handbooks; The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political leaders & leadership, Comparative Politics, Elections & referenda, Political leaders and leadership, Elections and referenda / suffrage