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Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure
Mark Irving Lichbach,Alan S. Zuckerman +1 more
- 28 Aug 1997
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TL;DR: L Lichbach and Zuckerman as mentioned in this paper discussed the role of rational choice in comparative and historical analysis of comparative political analysis, and made causal claims about the effect of 'ethnicity' on comparative analysis.
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Abstract: 1. Paradigms and pragmatism: comparative politics during the past decade Mark I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman 2. Thinking and working: discovery, explanation, and evidence in comparative politics Mark Irving Lichbach 3. Advancing explanation in comparative politics: social mechanisms, endogenous processes, and empirical rigor Alan S. Zuckerman 4. Strong theory, complex history: structure and configuration in comparative politics revisited Ira Katznelson 5. Reconsiderations of rational choice in comparative and historical analysis Margaret Levi 6. Culture in comparative political analysis Marc Ross 7. Researching the state Joel S. Migdal 8. An approach to comparative analysis, or a sub-field within a sub-field? Political economy Mark Blyth 9. The global context of comparative politics Etel Solingen 10. Comparative perspectives on contentious politics Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly 11. Citizenship in democratic politics: density dependence and the micro-macro divide Robert Huckfeldt 12. Macropolitics and microbehavior in comparative politics Christopher J. Anderson 13. Back to the future: endogenous institutions and comparative politics Jonathan Rodden 14. The comparative political economy of the welfare state Isabela Mares 15. Making causal claims about the effect of 'ethnicity' Kanchan Chandra.
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