Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Softcover

Lichbach, Mark Irving; Zuckerman, Alan S.

 
9780521586689: Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521586682 ISBN 13: 9780521586689
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This book reassesses the research schools in comparative politics, assessing knowledge, advancing theory, and in the end seeking to direct research in the coming years. It begins by examining the three research schools that guide comparative politics; rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches. The first set of contributors offer briefs for each of the schools, presenting core principles, variations within each approach, and fresh combinations. A second set of authors applies the research schools to established fields of scholarship. The concluding section contains essays by the editors, returning the focus to the theme of advanced theory in comparative politics.

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Book Description

This study brings together leading political scientists to examine rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches to political science. The contributors apply the various schools of comparative politics to the study of electoral politics, social movements and revolutions, political economy, and the state.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521586682
ISBN 13 
9780521586689
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
336