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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics

Edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes

Price: £85.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927848-0
Publication date: 9 August 2007
1048 pages, 246x171 mm
Series: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
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' Two visionary editors -- who see clearly where research in comparative politics is heading -- and a star-studded cast of authors who are acknowledged masters of their fields make this Oxford Handbook an accurate compass for those who wish to be brought to the frontiers of comparative research. ' - David D. Laitin, James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

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Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today
The only fully comprehensive ten-volume survey of the whole discipline
Not just a review of the discipline, but a major contribution to it
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics has an innovative structure, responding to the very latest scholarship in comparative politics, with sections covering: theory and methodology, states and the state formation: political consent, political regimes and transitions, political instability, political conflict, mass political mobilization, processing political demands, governance in comparative perspective
The volume covers and critiques all the key approaches to comparative politics
Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 47 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Part I includes chapters surveying the key research methodologies employed in comparative politics (the comparative method; the use of history; the practice and status of case-study research; the contributions of field research) and assessing the possibility of constructing a science of comparative politics. Parts II to IV examine the foundations of political order: the origins of states and the extent to which they relate to war and to economic development; the sources of compliance or political obligation among citizens; democratic transitions, the role of civic culture; authoritarianism; revolutions; civil wars and contentious politics. Parts V and VI explore the mobilization, representation and coordination of political demands. Part V considers why parties emerge, the forms they take and the ways in which voters choose parties. It then includes chapters on collective action, social movements and political participation. Part VI opens up with essays on the mechanisms through which political demands are aggregated and coordinated. This sets the agenda to the systematic exploration of the workings and effects of particular institutions: electoral systems, federalism, legislative-executive relationships, the judiciary and bureaucracy. Finally, Part VII is organized around the burgeoning literature on macropolitical economy of the last two decades.

Readership: Scholars and students of comparative politics

Contents

Part I. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

1. The Logic of Comparison , R Franzese

2. Historical Inquiry and Comparative Politics , J. Mahoney & C. Villegas

3. Case Studies and Comparative Politics , John Gerring

4. Field Research , Elisabeth Wood

5. Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible? , A. Przeworski

6. From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research , R. H. Bates

7. Collective Action Theory , E. Ostrom

Part II. STATES AND STATE FORMATION. POLITICAL CONSENT

8. War, Trade and State Formation , H. Spruyt

9. Compliance, Consent and Legitimacy , R. Hardin

10. National Identity , L. Greenfield & J. Eastwood

11. Nationalism and National Movements , A. Varshney

Part III. POLITICAL REGIMES AND TRANSITIONS

12. Mass Beliefs in Comparative Politics , C. Welzel & R. Inglehart

13. Democratization Theory , B. Geddes

14. Democracy and Civic Culture , P. Sabetti

15. Authoritarianism and Dictatorships , R. Wintrobe

Part IV. POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POLITICAL CONFLICT

16. Revolutions , S. Pincus

17. Civil Wars , S. Kalyvas

18. Social Movements and Contentious Politics , S. Tarrow and Ch. Tilly

19. Theories and Mechanisms of Contentious Politics. Activists andAcademics on Globalized Protest Movements , M. Lichbach and H. de Vries

Part V. MASS POLITICAL MOBILIZATION

20. Emergence of Parties , C. Boix

21. Party Systems , H. Kitschelt

22. Parties and Voters in Industrial Democracies , A. Wren & K.M. McElwain

23. Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies , F. Hagopian

24. Models of Programmatic and Clientelistic Parties , S. Stokes

25. Political Participation , P. Norris

Part VI. PROCESSING POLITICAL DEMANDS

26. Preference Aggregation. Spatial Models , G. Bingham Powell

27. Electoral systems. Description , R. Taagapera

28. Division of Powers. Presidentialism , D. Samuels

29. Judiciary , John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth and Charles Shipan

30. Federalism , Pablo Beramendi

31. Coalition Theory. Government Formation , K. Strom and Benjamin Nyblade

Part VII. GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

32. The Economy and Voting , R. Dutch

33. Political Business Cycles , J. Alt ans Shanna Rose

34. Welfare State , I. Mares

35. The Political Economy of Development , Phil Keefer

36. Political Accountability. Corruption , J.M. Maravall

37. Economic Transitions , T. Frye

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Carles Boix, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University and
Susan C. Stokes, John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Comparative politics
Political leaders & leadership
Elections & referenda

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