Comparing Nations
Concepts, Strategies, Substance
Published on 1. April 1994
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-631-18644-1 (ISBN)
Description
This work suggests that comparative politics and sociology have not always been good examples of the successful combination of abstract theory and empirical data. In this contribution to these fields, a group of distinguished scholars address the theoretical, methodological, epistemological and substantive problems involved in cross-national research.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-18644-1 (9780631186441)
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Content
Introduction: Strategies in Comparative Research, Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil. 1. Compare Why and How: Comparing, Miscomparing and the Comparative Method, Giovanni Sartori. 2. Use and Misuse of Statistics in Comparative Research - Limits to Quantification in Comparative Politics: The Gap Between Substance and Method, Mattei Dogan 3. Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective, Fred W. Riggs. 4. Binary Comparisons: American Exceptionalism - Japanese Uniqueness, Seymour Martin Lipset. 5. The Deviant Case in Comparative Analysis: High Stateness in a Muslim Society - The Case of Turkey, Ali Kazancigil. 6. Comparing Similar Countries: Problems of Conceptualization and Comparability in Latin America, John D. Martz. 7. Asynchronic Comparisons: Weak States in Post-Colonial Africa and Medieval Europe, Joshua B. Forrest. 8. The Pendulum Between Theory and Substance: Testing the Concepts of Legitimacy and Trust, Mattei Dogan.