Passion, craft, and method in comparative politics [electronic resource] / Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder ; interview with Gabriel A. Almond ... [et al.].
Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 773 pISBN:- 0801884632 (alk. paper)
- 0801884640 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801884634 (alk. paper)
- 9780801884641 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 320.3 22
- JF130 .M86 2007eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [711]-756) and indexes.
The human dimension of comparative research / Richard Snyder -- The past and present of comparative politics / Gerardo L. Munck -- The interviews: Gabriel A. Almond: structural functionalism and political development -- Barrington Moore, Jr.: the critical spirit and comparative historical analysis -- Robert A. Dahl: normative theory, empirical research, and democracy -- Juan J. Linz: political regimes and the quest for knowledge -- Samuel P. Huntington: order and conflict in global perspective -- Arend Lijphart: political institutions, divided societies, and consociational democracy -- Guillermo O'Donnell: democratization, political engagement, and agenda-setting research -- Philippe C. Schmitter: corporatism, democracy, and conceptual traveling -- James C. Scott: peasants, power, and the art of resistance -- Alfred Stepan: democratic governance and the craft of case-based research -- Adam Przeworski: capitalism, democracy, and science -- Robert H. Bates: markets, politics, and choice -- David Collier: critical junctions, concepts, and methods -- David D. Laitin: culture, rationality, and the search for discipline -- Theda Skocpol: states, revolutions, and the comparative historical imagination.
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