The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics

Editor/Author Landman, Todd and Robinson, Neil
Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $176.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $264.00
ISBN: 978-1-4129-1976-0
Category: Social Sciences - Political science
Image Count: 20
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This Handbook presents in one volume an authoritative overview of the theoretical, methodological, and substantive elements of comparative political science.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction - Todd Landman and Neil Robinson
  • PART I Methods and Fields of Comparative Politics
  • 1 The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research - Charles C. Ragin and Claude Rubinson
  • 2 Global Comparative Methods - Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis
  • 3 Case Studies - Darren Hawkins
  • 4 Is There a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing - James A. Caporaso
  • 5 Establishing Equivalence - Jan W. van Deth
  • 6 Comparative Political Sociology - Willfried Spohn
  • 7 Comparative Institutional Analysis - Vivien A. Schmidt
  • 8 Comparative Political Economy - Thomas Plümper
  • 9 The Contribution of Area Studies - Stephen E. Hanson
  • 10 Comparative Politics and International Relations - John M. Hobson
  • PART II Classic Issues in Comparative Politics
  • 11 Post-Industrial Democracies: Political Economy and Democratic Partisan Competition - Herbert Kitschelt
  • 12 Government Formation - Wolfgang C. Müller
  • 13 Institutional Design - Josep M. Colomer
  • 14 Comparative Political Behaviour: What is being Compared? - Shaun Bowler
  • 15 Changes in the Causes of Democratization Through Time - Barbara Geddes
  • 16 Political Culture - Christian Welzel
  • 17 Revolution - Jack A. Goldstone
  • 18 Social Movements - Vincent Boudreau and David S. Meyer
  • 19 Corruption - Paul Heywood
  • PART III New and Emerging Issues in Comparative Politics
  • 20 Electoral Authoritarianism - Andreas Schedler
  • 21 Electoral Corruption - Sarah Birch
  • 22 Comparative Federalism - David McKay
  • 23 Human Rights - Todd Landman
  • 24 Governance - Philip Keefer
  • 25 Terrorism - Jennifer S. Holmes
  • 26 Comparative Regional Integration and Regionalism - Fredrik Söderbaum
  • 27 Transitional Justice - Paola Cesarini
  • 28 The Globalization of Comparative Public Opinion Research - Pippa Norris