Inside Countries
Subnational Research in Comparative Politics
Published on 13. June 2019
Book
Hardback
386 pages
978-1-108-49658-2 (ISBN)
Description
Although comparative politics is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries, the field has a longstanding and increasingly prominent tradition in national contexts; focusing on subnational units, institutions, actors and processes. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions. With empirical chapters from across the contemporary Global South, including India, Mexico, and China, as well as Russia, the contributors show how subnational research provides useful insights about substantive themes in political science, from regimes and representation, to states and security, to social and economic development. In addition to methodological chapters with specific guidance about best practices for doing subnational research, this volume also proposes a set of strategies for subnational research, assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and offers illustrative empirical applications.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 18 Tables, black and white; 2 Maps; 10 Halftones, color; 33 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
782 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-49658-2 (9781108496582)
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Introduction; 1. Subnational research in comparative politics: substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder; Part I. Issues of Method and Research Design: 2. Politics in space: methodological considerations for taking space seriously in subnational research Imke Harbers and Matthew C. Ingram; 3. Units of analysis in subnational research Hillel Soifer; Part II. Regimes and Representation: 4. Politics in the provinces: subnational regimes in Russia, 1992-2005 Gavril Bilev; 5. Multi-level causation in gender policy: abortion and violence against women laws in the Mexican states Caroline Beer; Part III. States and Security: 6. Multi-level Partisan conflict and drug violence in Mexico: when do criminal organizations attack subnational elected officials? Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley; 7. Subnational units, the locus of choice, and concept formation: conceptualizing civilian behavior in contexts of Civil War Ana Arjona; Part IV. Social and Economic Development: 8. Subnationalism and social development: the subnational welfare state in India Prerna Singh; 9. Indigenous welfare, tribal homelands, and the impact of civil society organizations: a subnational analysis of federal India Sunila S. Kale and Nimah Mazaheri; 10. Local states of play: land and urban politics in reform era China Meg Rithmire; Conclusion: 11. Empirical and theoretical frontiers of subnational research in comparative politics Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder.