Conceptualising Comparative Politics

Author : Anthony Petros Spanakos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639030
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualising Comparative Politics written by Anthony Petros Spanakos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative politics often involves testing of hypotheses using new methodological approaches without giving sufficient attention to the concepts which are fundamental to hypotheses, particularly the ability of these concepts to ‘travel’. Proper operationalising requires deep reflection on the concept, not simply establishing how it should be measured. Conceptualising Comparative Politics – the flagship book of Routledge’s series of the same name – breaks new ground by emphasising the role of thoroughly thinking through concepts and deep familiarity with the case that inform the conceptual reflection. In this thought- provoking book, established academics as well as emerging scholars in the field collect (and invite) scholarship in the tradition of conceptual comparative politics. The book posits that concepts may be used comparatively as ‘lenses’, ‘building blocks’ and ‘scripts’, and contributors show how these conceptual tools can be employed in original comparative research. Importantly, contributors to Conceptualising Comparative Politics do not simply use concepts in one of these three ways but they apply them with careful consideration of empirical variation. The chapters included in this volume address some of the most contentious issues in comparative politics (populism, state capacity, governance, institutions, elections, secularism, among others) from various geographic regions and model how scholars doing comparative politics might approach such subjects. Concepts make possible scholarly conversations including creative confrontations across paradigms. Conceptualising Comparative Politics will challenge you to think of how to engage in conceptual comparative inquiry and how to use various methodologically sound techniques to understand and explain comparative politics.

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ISBN 13 : 9781317639022
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415330930
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Politics written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dietmar Braun
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783472073
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Politics written by Dietmar Braun and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the conceptual and methodological challenges facing comparative politics today? This informative book discusses four main challenges that create stress for disciplinary reproduction and advancement, while providing potential solutions. In seven chapters, the contributors cover the most pressing issues: the dissolution of the nation-state as the main objective of inquiry; the increasing complexity of concepts and methods; the capacity to accumulate knowledge; and the tensions between parsimonious and contextually rich explanations. Scholars and students of comparative politics, international relations and political science will be interested in the up-to-date overview of pertinent conceptual problems, as well as the possible ways forward. Practitioners and decision-makers will find the real-world examples provided in this book useful to their work.

Author : Philippe C. Schmitter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000180220
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics as a Science written by Philippe C. Schmitter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Politics as a Science, two of the world's leading authorities on Comparative Politics, Philippe C. Schmitter and Marc Blecher, provide a lively introduction to the concepts and framework to study and analyze politics. Written with dexterity, concision and clarity, this short text makes no claim to being scientific. It contains no disprovable hypotheses, no original collection of evidence and no search for patterns of association. Instead, Schmitter and Blecher keep the text broadly conceptual and theoretical to convey their vision of the sprawling subject of politics. They map the process in which researchers try to specify the goal of the trip, some of the landmarks likely to be encountered en route and the boundaries that will circumscribe the effort. Examples, implications and elaborations are included in footnotes throughout the book. Politics as a Science is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in, or studying, comparative politics. “The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003032144, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.”

Author : B. Guy Peters
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814766684
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Politics written by B. Guy Peters and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the issues involved in the attempts to compare political systems, and discusses how the methods and results of comparative politics can be improved.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429974566
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book New Directions In Comparative Politics written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ?must? reading for anyone interested in comparative politics, this text is designed to address the theoretical developments and approaches important to the comparative study of political systems today. These include: developmentalism, dependency theory, corporatism, state society relations, political economy, public policy analysis, indigenous theories of change, rational choice, and the new institutionalism. This text sees the new diversity of approaches as healthy and invigorating. The diversity in comparative politics over the past two decades has been reflected in prior editions of this book. Whereas these separate approaches once may have been regarded as fragmentary, now scholars have come to regard the diverse lines of inquiry as lending complimentary tools of analysis to our complex modern world. The emerging methods of comparative study often provide ?causeways? between previous ?islands of theory.? In this new edition, all the main approaches to comparative politics are represented in chapter length treatment. Several contributors revisit the topics they addressed in the prior editions, e.g. Tony Smith on dependency analysis, Lawrence Graham on public policy, and Joel Migdal on state-society relations. Most significantly, the third edition introduces readers to new, provocative analyses such as Paul Adams on corporatism, Anthony Gill on political economy; Ronald Inglehart on political culture; Gerardo Munck on rational choice, A. H. Somjee on indigenous theory, and Frank L. Wilson on the new institutionalism. Introductory and concluding essays by editor Howard J. Wiarda integrate the book, placing the different approaches in perspective.

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Download or read book Conceptualising Change in Comparative Politics: Polities, Peoples and Markets written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R K Pruthi
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176255448
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Politics: A Critique written by R K Pruthi and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: