Description
'Editors Landman and Robinson have compiled an excellent tour d'horizon of comparative politics. Distinguished contributors explore theoretical and methodological issues as well as examine the critical substantive domains that animate today's comparativists. Graduate students and academics will want to keep this volume on their book shelf' -
Professor Mark Irving Lichbach, University of Maryland'The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is a major new resource for scholars of comparative politics, and of political science more generally. The Handbook covers the field with admirable thoroughness, but does not sacrifice depth for breadth. The chapters are written by notable scholars who provide rich discussions of their topics, and help to move the sub-discipline forward' - B. Guy Peters, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics presents; in one volume, an authoritative overview of the theoretica
Review
′Editors Landman and Robinson have compiled an excellent tour d′horizon of comparative politics. Distinguished contributors explore theoretical and methodological issues as well as examine the critical substantive domains that animate today′s comparativists. Graduate students and academics will want to keep this volume on their book shelf′ - Professor Mark Irving Lichbach, University of Maryland
′The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is a major new resource for scholars of comparative politics, and of political science more generally. The Handbook covers the field with admirable thoroughness, but does not sacrifice depth for breadth. The chapters are written by notable scholars who provide rich discussions of their topics, and help to move the sub-discipline forward′ - B. Guy Peters, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Table of Contents
Introduction - Todd Landman and Neil Robinson PART ONE: METHODS AND FIELDS OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research - Charles C Ragin and Claude Rubinson Global Comparative Methods - Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis Case Studies - Darren Hawkins Is there a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing - James A Caporaso Establishing Equivalence - Jan W van Deth Comparative Political Sociology - Willfried Spohn Comparative Institutional Analysis - Vivien A Schmidt Comparative Political Economy - Thomas Pl mper The Contribution of Area Studies - Stephen E Hanson Comparative Politics and International Relations - John M Hobson PART TWO: CLASSIC ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS Postindustrial Democracies: Political economy and democratic partisan competition - Herbert Kitschelt Government Formation - Wolfgang C M ller Institutional Design - Josep M Colomer Comparative Political Behaviour: What is being compared? - Shaun Bowler Changes in the Causes of Democratization through Time - Barbara Geddes Political Culture - Christian Welzel Revolution - Jack A Goldstone Social Movements - Vincent Boudreau and David S Meyer Corruption - Paul Heywood PART THREE: NEW AND EMERGING ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS Electoral Authoritarianism - Andreas Schedler Electoral Corruption - Sarah Birch Comparative Federalism - David McKay Human Rights - Todd Landman Governance - Philip Keefer Terrorism - Jennifer S Holmes Comparative Regional Integration and Regionalism - Fredrik Söderbaum Transitional Justice - Paola Cesarini The globalization of comparative public opinion research - Pippa Norris
