The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 August 2007
- ISBN 9780199278480
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1040 pages
- Size 253x179x53 mm
- Weight 1706 g
- Language English 0
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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.
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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.
This comprehensive work...provides a thorough and contemporary examination of the field of comparative politics and various central questions within it...there is more than enough material here (including detailed references) to keep scholars and bring graduate students completely up to date; indeed the analyses are often cutting edge. Lastly, inasmuch as this handbook series aspires to shape the discipline and not just describe it, many chapters in this handbook usefully conclude with a precise outline of the future research agenda as seen by the author.
Table of Contents:
Part I. INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Part II. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
Multicausality, Context-Conditionality, and Endogeneity in Comparative Politics
Historical Inquiry and Comparative Politics
The Case Study: What it is and What it Does
Field Research
Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible?
From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research
Collective Action Theory
Part III. STATES AND STATE FORMATION: POLITICAL CONSENT
War, Trade and State Formation
Compliance, Consent, and Legitimacy
National Identity
Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicy
Part IV. POLITICAL REGIMES AND TRANSITIONS
Mass Beliefs
What Causes Democratization?
Democracy and Civic Culture
Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches
Part V. POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POLITICAL CONFLICT
Rethinking Revolutions: A Neo-Torquevillian Perpective
Civil Wars
Contentious Politics and Social Movements
Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements
Part VI. MASS POLITICAL MOBILIZATION
Emergence of Parties and Party Systems
Party Systems
Voters and Parties
Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies
Political Clientelism
Political Activism: New Challenges, New Opportunities
Part VII. PROCESSING POLITICAL DEMANDS
Aggregating and Representing Political Preferences
Electoral Systems
Separation of Powers
Comparative Judicial Politics
Federalism
Coalition Theory and Government Formation
Part VIII. GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Comparative Studies of the Economy and the Vote
Context-Conditional Political Budget Cycles
The Welfare State in Global Perpective
The Poor Performance of Poor Democracies
Accountability and the Survival of Governments
Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics
