The Oxford handbook of comparative politics / edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes.

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TextSeries: The Oxford handbooks of political sciencePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xi, 1012 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780199566020

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Comparative government

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320.3

Contents:

Pt. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 1. Introduction / Charles Boix & Susan C. Stokes -- Pt. 2. Theory and methodology -- Ch. 2. Multicausality, context-conditionality, and endogeneity / Robert J. Franzese, Jr -- Ch. 3. Historical enquiry and comparative politics / James Mahoney & Celso M. Villegas -- Ch. 4. The case study, what it is and what it does / John Gerring -- Ch. 5. Field research / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- Ch. 6. Is the science of comparative politics possible? / Adam Przeworski -- Ch. 7. From case studies to social science: a strategy for political research / Robert H. Bates -- Ch. 8. Collective action theory / Elinor Ostrom -- Pt. 3. States and state formation political consent -- Ch. 9. War, trade, and state formation / Hendrik Spruyt -- Ch. 10. Compliance, consent, and legitimacy / Russell Hardin -- Ch. 11. National identity / Liah Greenfeld & Jonathan Eastwood -- Ch. 12. Ethnicity and ethnic conflict / Ashutosh Varshney -- Pt. 4. Political regimes and transitions -- Ch. 13. Mass beliefs in comparative politics / Christian Welzel & Ronald Inglehart -- Ch. 14. What causes democratization? / Barbara Geddes -- Ch. 15. Democracy and civic culture / Filippo Sabetti -- Ch. 16. Dictatorship: analytical approaches / Ronald Wintrobe -- Pt. 5. Political instability, political conflict -- Ch. 17. Rethinking revolutions: a neo-Tocquevillian perspective / Steven Pincus -- Ch. 18. Civil wars / Stathis N. Kalyvas -- Ch. 19 Contentious politics and social movements / Sidney Tarrow & Charles Tilly -- Ch. 20. Mechanisms of globalized protest movements / Mark I. Lichbach & Helma G.E. de Vries -- Pt. 6. Mass political mobilization -- Ch. 21. The emergence of parties and party systems / Carles Boix -- Ch. 22. Party systems/ Herbert Kitschelt -- Ch. 23. Voters and parties / A. Wren & Kenneth M. McElwain. Ch. 24. Parties and voters in emerging democracies / Frances Hagopian -- Ch. 25. Political clientelism / Susan C. Stokes -- Ch. 26. Political activism: new challenges, new opportunities / Pippa Norris -- Pt. 7. Processing political demand -- Ch. 27. Aggregating and representing political preferences / G. Bingham Powell, Jr. Ch. 28. Electoral systems / Rein Taagapera -- Ch. 29. Separation of powers / David Samuels -- Ch. 30. Comparative judicial politics / John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth & Charles Shipan -- Ch. 31. Federalism / Pablo Beramendi -- Ch. 32. Coalition theory and government formation / Kaare Strom & Benjamin Nyblade -- Pt. 8. Governance in comparative perspective -- Ch. 33. Comparative studies of the economy and the vote / Raymond M. Duch -- Ch. 34. Context-conditional political budget cycles / James E. Alt & Shanna S. Rose -- Ch. 35. The welfare state in global perspective / Matthew E. Carnes & Isabela Mares -- Ch. 36. The poor performance of poor democracies / Philip Keefer -- Ch. 37. Accountability and the survival of governments / Jose Maria Maravall -- Ch. 38. Economic transformation and comparative politics / Timothy Frye --

Summary: 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. Part I includes chapters surveying the key research methodologies employed in comparative politics (the comparative method; the use of history; the practice and status of case-study research; the contributions of field research) and assessing the possibility of constructing a science of comparative politics. Parts II to IV examine the foundations of political order: the origins of states and the extent to which they relate to war and to economic development; the sources of compliance or political obligation among citizens; democratic transitions, the role of civic culture; authoritarianism; revolutions; civil wars and contentious politics. Parts V and VI explore the mobilization, representation and coordination of political demands. Part V considers why parties emerge, the forms they take and the ways in which voters choose parties. It then includes chapters on collective action, social movements and political participation. Part VI opens up with essays on the mechanisms through which political demands are aggregated and coordinated. This sets the agenda to the systematic exploration of the workings and effects of particular institutions: electoral systems, federalism, legislative-executive relationships, the judiciary and bureaucracy. Finally, Part VII is organized around the burgeoning literature on macropolitical economy of the last two decades.

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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. Part I includes chapters surveying the key research methodologies employed in comparative politics (the comparative method; the use of history; the practice and status of case-study research; the contributions of field research) and assessing the possibility of constructing a science of comparative politics. Parts II to IV examine the foundations of political order: the origins of states and the extent to which they relate to war and to economic development; the sources of compliance or political obligation among citizens; democratic transitions, the role of civic culture; authoritarianism; revolutions; civil wars and contentious politics. Parts V and VI explore the mobilization, representation and coordination of political demands. Part V considers why parties emerge, the forms they take and the ways in which voters choose parties. It then includes chapters on collective action, social movements and political participation. Part VI opens up with essays on the mechanisms through which political demands are aggregated and coordinated. This sets the agenda to the systematic exploration of the workings and effects of particular institutions: electoral systems, federalism, legislative-executive relationships, the judiciary and bureaucracy. Finally, Part VII is organized around the burgeoning literature on macropolitical economy of the last two decades.

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