The Oxford handbook of comparative politics/

Other Authors: Boix, Carles, Stokes, Susan Carol
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Oxford ; New York]: Oxford University Press, [c2009]
Series:Oxford handbooks of political science
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Charles Boix, Susan C. Stokes
  • Multicausality, context-conditionality, and endogeneity / Robert J. Franzese, Jr.
  • Historical enquiry and comparative politics / James Mahoney & Celso M. Villegas
  • The case study, what it is and what it does / John Gerring
  • Field research / Elisabeth Jean Wood
  • Is the science of comparative politics possible? / Adam Przeworski
  • From case studies to social science: a strategy for political research / Robert H. Bates
  • Collective action theory / Elinor Ostrom
  • War, trade, and state formation / Hendrik Spruyt
  • Compliance, consent, and legitimacy / Russell Hardin
  • National identity / Liah Greenfeld & Jonathan Eastwood
  • Ethnicity and ethnic conflict / Ashutosh Varshney
  • Mass beliefs in comparative politics / Christian Welzel & Ronald Inglehart
  • What causes democratization? / Barbara Geddes
  • Democracy and civic culture / Filippo Sabetti
  • Dictatorship: analytical approaches / Ronald Wintrobe
  • Rethinking revolutions: a neo-Tocquevillian perspective / Steven Pincus
  • Civil wars / Stathis N. Kalyvas
  • Contentious politics and social movements / Sidney Tarrow & Charles Tilly
  • Mechanisms of globalized protest movements / Mark I. Lichbach & Helma G.E. de Vries
  • The emergence of parties and party systems / Carles Boix
  • Party systems/ Herbert Kitschelt
  • Voters and parties / A. Wren & Kenneth M. McElwain
  • Parties and voters in emerging democracies / Frances Hagopian
  • Political clientelism / Susan C. Stokes
  • Political activism: new challenges, new opportunities / Pippa Norris
  • Aggregating and representing political preferences / G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
  • Electoral systems / Rein Taagapera
  • Separation of powers / David Samuels
  • Comparative judicial politics / John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth & Charles Shipan
  • Federalism / Pablo Beramendi
  • Coalition theory and government formation / Kaare Strom & Benjamin Nyblade
  • Comparative studies of the economy and the vote / Raymond M. Duch
  • Context-conditional political budget cycles / James E. Alt & Shanna S. Rose
  • The welfare state in global perspective / Matthew E. Carnes & Isabela Mares
  • The poor performance of poor democracies / Philip Keefer
  • Accountability and the survival of governments / Jose Maria Maravall
  • Economic transformation and comparative politics / Timothy Frye.