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Cover Image: How to Compare Nations: Strategies in Comparative Politics, 2nd Edition
  • Date: 01/01/1990
  • Format: Print Paperback
  • Price: $29.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-93454-079-7
  • Pages: 216
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How to Compare Nations: Strategies in Comparative Politics, 2nd Edition
Mattei Dogan
Dominique Pelassy

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"In How to Compare Nations, Dogan and Pelassy have constructed a succinct and unconventional guide to the conduct of comparative analysis and the construction of social science theory. It should be required reading for all first-year graduate students; its use at the undergraduate level would be a sign of educational professionalism."

– American Political Science Review

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Table of Contents

Part 1. The Compass of the Comparativist

1. Comparing tooo Escape from Ethnocentrism
2. Comparing to Find Sociological Rules
3. Operational Concepts
4. Theoretical Frameworks
5. Functional Equivalences

Part 2. The Internationalization of Analytical Categories

6. Social Classes: Different in Each Continent
7. Cultural Pluralism: Vertically Divided Societies
8. Political Culture: From Nation to Nation
9. Political Socialization: From Generation to Generation
10. Political Clientelism: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon
11. Consociational Democracy: An Elitist Model for Fragmented Societies
12. Political Crises: Historical Events or Stages of Development

Part 3. The Choice of Countries

13. On the Need to Segment Before Comparing
14. The Case Study in Comparative Perspective
15. The Binary Analysis
16. Comparing Similar Countries
17. Comparing Contrasting Countries
18. The Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field

Part 4. How to Structure the Results of the Comparison

19. The Dichotomy as Clarification
20. Cross-National Typologies of Social Actors
21. Typologies of Political Regimes
22. The Dynamics of Models
23. From Comparison to Synthesis
24. From Comparison to Prediction

Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Bio(s)
Mattei Dogan


Dominique Pelassy
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