Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis

This book situates comparative-historical analysis within contemporary debates in political science and explores the latest theoretical and conceptual advances.

List of contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Comparative-historical analysis in contemporary political science Kathleen Thelen and James Mahoney; Part II. Agenda-Setting Work: 2. The developmental state is dead: long live the developmental state! Stephan Haggard; 3. Coalitions, policies, and distribution: Esping-Andersen's three worlds of welfare capitalism Jane Gingrich; 4. Not just what but when (and how): comparative-historical approaches to authoritarian durability Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way; Part III. Tools for Temporal Analysis: 5. Power and path dependence Paul Pierson; 6. Critical junctures and institutional change Giovanni Capoccia; 7. Drift and conversion: hidden faces of institutional change Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson and Kathleen Thelen; Part IV. Issues of Method: 8. The comparative sequential method Tulia G. Falleti and James Mahoney; 9. Nested analysis: towards the integration of comparative-historical analysis with other social science methods Evan S. Lieberman; Epilogue: comparative-historical analysis: past, present, future Wolfgang Streeck.

About the author

James Mahoney is Gordon Fulcher Professor in Decision-Making and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois.Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Summary

A fresh programmatic statement about comparative-historical analysis, situating it within current broad debates in political science. Contributions include new theoretical and conceptual advances in the study of path dependence, critical junctures and institutional dynamics, and methodological tools for analyzing sequences and combining CHA with other approaches.

Product details

• Authors: James Mahoney, James (Northwestern University Mahoney, James Thelen Mahoney, Kathleen Thelen
• Assisted by: James Mahoney (Editor), James (Northwestern University Mahoney (Editor), Mahoney James (Editor), Kathleen Thelen (Editor), Kathleen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Thelen (Editor), Thelen Kathleen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107110021
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11002-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 250 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Strategies for Social Inquiry; Print on Demand; Strategies for Social Inquiry
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology