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The SAGE Library of Political Science collects together the articles that have been most influential in shaping the discipline.
Each multi-volume set presents a collection of field-defining published works, both classical and contemporary, sourced from the foremost publications in the discipline by an internationally renowned editor or editorial team. They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the past, present and likely future of each area.
The series covers both the key approaches to studying the discipline and the primary sub-fields that form the focus of political scientists' work.
The SAGE Library of Political Science will be an essential addition for university libraries throughout the world with an interest in Political Science.
Comparative politics addresses the central questions of political science anywhere ...
Comparative Politics: An Introduction
Comparative politics is the essence of political science. With Aristotle its most ancient intellectual forebear, the field is also a child of the scholarship of Alexis De Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Gaetano Mosca, Roberto Michels, and Vilfredo Pareto, and others who established modern social science more than a century ago. Today, comparative politics also draws nourishment from all the social sciences: economics, anthropology, and sociology, and, of course, political science; it also learns from recent work in cognitive science and decision theory. In comparative politics, the strands of social science come together, covering more than three centuries of knowledge about politics.
In this field, political science joins two fundamental tasks. Comparativists study the politics of particular places in order to address ...
Table of Contents
Volume I: Comparative Political Science: Research Schools and Methods
icon angle down1.A Perspective on Comparative Politics, Past and Present
Harry Eckstein
1963
Comparative Politics: A Reader2.Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics
Giovanni Sartori
1970
American Political Science Review3.Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
Arend Lijphart
1971
American Political Science Review4.Case Study and Theory in Political Science
Harry Eckstein
1975
Handbook of Political Science5.Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research
David Collier | Steven Levitsky
1997
World Politics6.Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science
Herbert Simon
1985
American Political Science Review7.A Culturalist Theory of Political Change
Harry Eckstein
1988
American Political Science Review8.Political Culture and Political Preferences
David Laitin
1988
American Political Science Review9.The Renaissance of Political Culture
Ronald Inglehart
1988
American Political Science Review10.Games Real Actors Could Play: The Challenge of Complexity
Fritz Scharpf
1991
Journal of Theoretical Politics11.Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
Peter Hall | Rosemary Taylor
1996
Political Studies12.Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay
Robert Bates
1997
American Political Science Review13.Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition
Jon Elster
2000
American Political Science Review14.The Analytic Narrative Project
Robert Bates | Avner Greif | Margaret Levi | Jean-Laurent Rosenthal | Barry Weingast
2000
American Political Science Review15.Returning to the Social Logic of Political Behavior
Alan Zuckerman
2005
The Social Logic of Politic: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior
Volume II: Regime Structure and Change
icon angle down16.Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy
Seymour Lipset
1959
American Political Science Review17.The State as a Conceptual Variable
J. Nettl
1968
World Politics18.Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model
Dankwart Rustow
1970
Comparative Politics19.Still the Century of Corporatism?
Philippe Schmitter
1974
The Review of PoliticsGabriel Almond
1988
American Political Science Review21.The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, 1945–85
Arend Lijphart
1990
American Political Science Review22.Political Regime Change: Structure and Process-Driven Explanations?
Herbert Kitschelt
1992
American Political Science Review23.Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
Mancur Olson
1993
American Political Science Review24.Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism
Alfred Stepan | Cindy Skach
1993
World Politics25.Democratic Transitions in Comparative Perspective
Gerardo Munck
1994
Comparative Politics26.The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address
Seymour Lipset
1994
American Sociological ReviewGeorge Tsebelis
1995
British Journal of Political Science28.Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics
Kathleen Thelen
1999
Annual Reviews of Political Science29.Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations
Valerie Bunce
2000
Comparative Political Studies
Volume III: Politics, Economics, and Society
icon angle down30.Political Cleavage: A Conceptual and Theoretical Analysis
Alan Zuckerman
1975
British Journal of Political Science31.Elections: The Expression of the Democratic Class Struggle
Seymour Lipset
1981
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics32.The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis
David Cameron
1978
The American Political Science Review33.The Structure of Class Conflict in Democratic Capitalist Societies
Adam Przeworski | Michael Wallerstein
1982
American Political Science Review34.Working-Class Formation: Constructing Cases and Comparisons
Ira Katznelson
1986
Working–Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Europe and the United States35.Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance
Jeffry Frieden
1991
International Organization36.Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance
R. Alvarez | Geoffrey Garrett | Peter Lange
1991
American Political Science ReviewPeter Swenson
1991
World Politics38.Beyond Corporatism: Toward a New Framework for the Study of Labor in Advanced Capitalism
Kathleen Thelen
1994
Comparative PoliticsJonas Pontusson
1995
Comparative Political StudiesJonas Pontusson | Peter Swenson
1996
Comparative Political Studies
Volume IV: Political Choice and Behavior: From Voting to Violence
icon angle down41.Of Time and Partisan Stability
Philip Converse
1969
Comparative Political Studies42.Corruption, Machine Politics, and Political Change
James Scott
1969
American Political Science Review43.Political Clientelism and Ethnicity in Tropical Africa: Competing Solidarities in Nation-Building
René Lemarchand
1972
American Political Science Review44.The Selfish Voter Paradox and the Thrown-Away Vote Argument
Paul Meehl
1977
American Political Science Review45.The Two-Party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science
William Riker
1982
American Political Science Review46.Testing the Converse Partisanship Model with New Electorates
Richard Niemi | G. Powell | Harold Stanley | C. Evans
1985
Comparative Political Studies47.The Political Bases of Citizen Contacting: A Cross-National Analysis
Alan Zuckerman | Darrell West
1985
American Political Science Review48.American Voter Turnout in Comparative Perspective
G. Powell
1986
American Political Science Review49.Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies
Robert Jackman
1987
American Political Science ReviewMark Lichbach
1994
Rationality and SocietyTorben Iversen
1994
American Journal of Political Science52.The 5% Rule
Mark Lichbach
1995
Rationality and Society53.Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
James Fearon | David Laitin
1996
American Political Science Review54.Politics and Society: Political Diversity and Uniformity in Households as a Theoretical Puzzle
Alan Zuckerman | Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz
1998
Comparative Political Studies55.Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria
Stathis Kalyvas
1999
Rationality and Society56.Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and beyond
Ashutosh Varshney
2000
World Politics57.Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity
James Fearon | David Laitin
2000
International Organization58.Patterns of Disagreement in Democratic Politics: Comparing Germany, Japan, and the United States
Robert Huckfeldt | Ken'ichi Ikeda | Franz Pappi
2005
American Journal of Political Science