Comparing Nations: Concepts, Strategies, Substance - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631186441 ISBN 13 : 9780631186441

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

All Chapters within this book are explicitly comparative, the contributors deal with various methodological problems in comparative research; the pitfalls of miscomparing; the use and abuse of statistics; the conceptual homogenization of a heterogeneous perspective; the strategy of comparing similar countries; asynchronic comparisions; and the pendulum between theory and substance.

These methodological issues are illustrated by empirical studies of important subjects; the fragility of the presidential regimes; the Japanese exceptionalism; the comparability of Latin America countries; the pertinence of an asynchronic comparison between weak states in post–colonial Africa and Medieval Europe; the deviant case of high stateness in a Muslim country; the empirical testing of the concepts of legitimacy and trust; the limits to quantification; and the specificity of the comparative method.

All the contributors are outstanding comparativists, working at the forefront of the comparative field. The team includes Mattei Dogan, Joshua B. Forrest, Seymour Martin Lipset, Ali Kazancigil, John D. Martz, Fred W. Riggs and Giovanni Sartori.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This highly original collection of essays, written by some of the world′s best–known political scientists elucidates state–of–the–art methodological approaches to comparative politics.
Giovanni Sartori and Mattei Dogan examine the applicability and validity of statistical techniques in the field. Seymour Martin Lipset considers the effectiveness of binary comparisons while John D. Martz addresses similar questions in regard of multi–state comparisons in Latin America. John Forrest offers an `asynchronic comparison′ of weak contemporary African States and similar in Medieval Europe. Ali Kazancigil looks at Turkey′s `high stateness′ as deviant, and Mattei Dogan concludes the volume with a consideration of the applicability of Weber′s typology of legitimacy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631186441
• ISBN 13: 9780631186441
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Dogan Mattei, Kazancigil Ali
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible