Analytic Narratives
Princeton University Press
Published on 6. September 1998
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-691-00128-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In this text, five senior scholars offer an ambitious methodological response to this question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting empirically-testable, general hypotheses from particular cases. The result is both a methodological manifesto and an applied handbook. The individual essays demonstrate the concept of the analytic narrative - a rational choice approach to explain political outcomes - in case studies. They highlight the economic role of political organizations, the rise and deterioration of political communities, and the role of coercion, especially warfare, in political life.
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"Analytic Narratives showcases cutting-edge work in the comparative and historical application of rational-choice theory."-Mark Lichbach, University of Colorado at BoulderMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Trade binding
Illustrations
40 line illus. 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-00128-9 (9780691001289)
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Robert H. Bates | Avner Greif | Margaret Levi
Analytic Narratives
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Persons
Robert H. Bates is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Faculty Fellow of the Institute of International Development at Harvard University. Avner Greif is Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and the Harry Bridges Chair in Labor Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
Content
Acknowledgments 1 Self-Enforcing Political Systems and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa 2 The Political Economy of Absolutism Reconsidered 3 Conscription: The Price of Citizenship 4 Political Stability and Civil War: Institutions, Commitment, and American Democracy 5 The International Coffee Organization: An International Institution Conclusion Appendix Index