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9780521816106

Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences

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    9780521816106

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    0521816106

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-02-03
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This book systematically investigates the past accomplishments and future agendas of contemporary comparative-historical analysis. Its core essays explore three major issues: the accumulation of knowledge in the field over the past three decades, the analytic tools used to study temporal process and historical patterns, and the methodologies available for making inferences and for building theories. The introductory and concluding essays situate the field as a whole by comparing it to alternative approaches within the social sciences. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, and it will represent a challenge to many other social scientists - especially those who have raised skeptical concerns about comparative-historical analysis in the past.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
Preface xv
Introduction
Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas
3(38)
James Mahoney
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
I Accumulation of Research
Comparative Historical Analysis and Knowledge Accumulation in the Study of Revolutions
41(50)
Jack A. Goldstone
What We Know About the Development of Social Policy: Comparative and Historical Research in Comparative and Historical Perspective
91(40)
Edwin Amenta
Knowledge Accumulation in Comparative Historical Research: The Case of Democracy and Authoritarianism
131(46)
James Mahoney
II Analytic Tools
Big, Slow-Moving, and . . . Invisible: Macrosocial Processes in the Study of Comparative Politics
177(31)
Paul Pierson
How Institutions Evolve: Insights from Comparative Historical Analysis
208(33)
Kathleen Thelen
Uses of Network Tools in Comparative Historical Research
241(29)
Roger V. Gould
Periodization and Preferences: Reflections on Purposive Action in Comparative Historical Social Science
270(35)
Ira Katznelson
III Issues of Method
Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains?
305(32)
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Strategies of Causal Assessment in Comparative Historical Analysis
337(36)
James Mahoney
Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Politics
373(34)
Peter A. Hall
Conclusion
Doubly Engaged Social Science: The Promise of Comparative Historical Analysis
407(22)
Theda Skocpol
Index 429

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