Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure - Rilegato

Lichbach, Mark Irving; Zuckerman, Alan S.

 
9780521583695: Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure

Sinossi

This collection reassesses rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches to comparative politics.

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Descrizione del libro

This study brings together leading political scientists to examine rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches to political science. The contributors apply the various schools of comparative politics to the study of electoral politics, social movements and revolutions, political economy, and the state.

Contenuti

Part I. Introduction: 1. Research traditions and theory in comparative politics: an introduction Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman; Part II. Research Traditions in Comparative Politics: 2. A model, a method, and a map: rational choice in comparative and historical analysis Margaret Levi; 3. Culture and identity in comparative political analysis Marc Howard Ross; 4. Structure and configuration in comparative politics Ira Katznelson; Part III. Theory Development in Comparative Politics: 5. Electoral behaviour and comparative politics Samuel H. Barnes; 6. Towards an integrated persepctive on social movements Doug McAdams, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly; 7. The role of interests, institutions and ideals in the comparative political economy of the industrialized nations Peter A. Hall; 8. Studying the state Joel S. Migdal; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Social theory and comparative politics Mark Irving Lichbach; 10. Reformulating explanation and advancing theory in comparative politics Alan S. Zuckerman.

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