Advances in comparative-historical analysis /

Against the backdrop of an explosion of interest in new techniques for data collection and theory testing, this volume provides a fresh programmatic statement about comparative-historical analysis. It examines the advances and distinctive contributions that CHA has made to theory generation and the...

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Main Authors: Mahoney, James, 1968- (Author, Editor), Thelen, Kathleen Ann (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Strategies for social inquiry.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION.
  • Comparative-historical analysis in contemporary political science / Kathleen Thelen and James Mahoney
  • PART II. AGENDA-SETTING WORK.
  • The developmental state is dead : long live the developmental state! / Stephan Haggard
  • Coalitions, policies, and distribution : Esping-Andersen's three worlds of welfare capitalism / Jane Gingrich
  • Not just what but when (and how) : comparative-historical approaches to authoritarian durability / Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way
  • PART III. TOOLS FOR TEMPORAL ANALYSIS.
  • Power and path dependence / Paul Pierson
  • Critical junctures and institutional change / Giovanni Capoccia
  • Drift and conversion : hidden faces of institutional change / Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson and Kathleen Thelen
  • PART IV. ISSUES OF METHOD.
  • The comparative sequential method / Tulia G. Falleti and James Mahoney
  • Nested analysis : towards the integration of comparative-historical analysis with other social science methods / Evan S. Lieberman
  • Epilogue : comparative-historical analysis : past, present, future / Wolfgang Streeck.