Doing comparative politics: an introduction to approaches and issues
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2010
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XI, 369 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781588267443 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures
ix
Preface
xi
1
Introduction: What Is Comparative Politics?
1
What Js Comparative Politics?
2
Why Does Comparative Politics Focus on What Happens
Inside Countries?
//
What Is Politics?
13
What Does It Mean to Compare? What Is a Comparativist?
17
Why Compare?
19
What Is Comparable?
22
What Are the Advantages of the Comparative Method?
23
By Way of a Conclusion: Method and Theory in
Comparative Politics
26
Questions
26
Part
1
Doing Comparative Politics
2
Comparing to Learn, Learning to Compare:
A Primer on Comparative Methods
31
Comparing and Critical Thinking
32
Strategies of Comparing
33
The Logic of Comparative Analysis
33
Concrete Strategies of Comparative Analysis
46
Conclusion
63
Questions
63
3
Thinking Theoretically in Comparative Politics
67
Why Study Theory?
67
Theory in Comparative Politics
73
Rationality: A Nontechnical Introduction
78
vi
Contents
The Structural Tradition
82
The Cultural Tradition
SS
A Hybrid Tradition: Institutionalism
93
Separation or Synthesis?
96
Conclusion: Bringing Everything Together
97
Questions
98
Part
2
The Questions
4
Why Are Poor Countries Poor?
Explaining Economic Underdevelopment
105
Defining Poverty
107
Individual Choice, Collective Outcomes, and Poverty:
A Rational Choice Perspective
109
Cultural Explanations of Poverty
117
Keeping the Poor Down? Structural Explanations of Poverty
126
Conclusion
134
Questions
735
5
Why Is East Asia Rich?
Explaining Capitalist Growth and Industrialization
in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China
139
Rationality, the Strong State, and Rapid Economic
Growth in East Asia
144
Culture and Capitalist Development in East Asia
154
Global Capitalism and the Rise of East Asia
162
Explaining China s Economic Rise
169
Conclusion
176
Questions
177
6
What Makes a Democracy?
Explaining the Breakdown of Authoritarian Rule
179
Defining Democracy: A Never-Ending Debate?
180
Economic Development and Democracy:
A Necessary Relationship?
184
Agents of Democratization: Rational Choice and
Democratic Transition
192
Structure and Rationality: Competition or Synthesis?
204
A Missing Link? Culture and Democracy
205
Conclusion: Taking the Next Step
216
Questions
218
Contents
vii
7
What Makes a Terrorist?
Explaining Violent
Substate
Activism
221
What Is Terrorism?
221
The Logic of Terrorism: Terrorist Behavior as a Product
of Strategic Choice
225
Culture, Religion, and Terrorism
234
Globalization and the Rise of Terrorism: A Structural View
241
Conclusion: The (Methodological) Dangers of Studying
Terrorism
248
Questions
250
8
What Makes a Social Movement?
Explaining the Rise and Success of
Collective Mobilization, by Atsuko Sato
253
Defining Social Movements
254
Collective Action, Social Movements, and Rationality
259
Structural Accounts of Social Movements
266
Culture and Social Movements:
Two Contrasting Approaches
273
Conclusion
280
Questions
280
Part
3
The Future of Comparative Politics
9
Globalization and the Study of Comparative Politics
285
What Is Globalization? A Reprise
287
Implications of Globalization in Comparative Politics
291
Assessing Globalization s Impact on Comparative Politics:
The Case of Immigrant Rights
293
Globalization and the Three Research Traditions
295
Rational Choice in a Global Context
296
Globalization and Culture
300
Globalization and Structural Approaches
305
Conclusion
308
Questions
308
Glossary
311
Selected Bibliography
337
Index
355
About the Book
369
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