The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics
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The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics

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  2. English
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The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics

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?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 theoretical, methodological and substantive elements of comparative political science. The 28 specially commissioned chapters, written by renowned comparative scholars, guide the reader through the central issues and debates, presenting a state-of-the-art guide to the past, present and possible futures of the field.

The Handbook is divided into three parts. The first considers comparative methodologies and reviews the interactions between various sub-fields of comparative politics: political economy; political sociology; area studies; international relations; and institutional analysis. The second section examines nine ?classic? issues of concern to comparativists, including government formation, political behaviour and democratization. In the final section, nine new and emerging areas of comparative research are considered, such as terrorism, electoral corruption, human rights and regional integration.

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is an essential resource for researchers in political science, political sociology, political economy, international relations, area studies and all other fields with a comparative political dimension.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables and Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Introduction
  7. PART I - Methods and Fields of Comparative Politics
  8. 1 The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research
  9. 2 Global Comparative Methods
  10. 3 Case Studies
  11. 4 Is there a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing
  12. 5 Establishing Equivalence
  13. 6 Comparative Political Sociology
  14. 7 Comparative Institutional Analysis
  15. 8 Comparative Political Economy
  16. 9 The Contribution of Area Studies
  17. 10 Comparative Politics and International Relations
  18. PART II - Classic Issues in Comparative Politics
  19. 11 Post-Industrial Democracies: Political Economy and Democratic Partisan Competition
  20. 12 Government Formation
  21. 13 Institutional Design
  22. 14 Comparative Political Behaviour: What is being Compared?
  23. 15 Changes in the Causes of Democratization through Time
  24. 16 Political Culture
  25. 17 Revolution
  26. 18 Social Movements
  27. 19 Corruption
  28. PART III - New and Emerging Issues in Comparative Politics
  29. 20 Electoral Authoritarianism
  30. 21 Electoral Corruption
  31. 22 Comparative Federalism
  32. 23 Human Rights
  33. 24 Governance
  34. 25 Terrorism
  35. 26 Comparative Regional Integration and Regionalism
  36. 27 Transitional Justice
  37. 28 The Globalization of Comparative Public Opinion Research
  38. Index