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  title info:
    title: Comparative area studies
    sub title: methodological rationales and cross-regional applications
  name:
    name part: Ahram, Ariel I. (Ariel Ira)
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Köllner, Patrick
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sil, Rudra
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 300 pages)
  abstract: Area studies scholarship has been indispensable for the development of social scientific knowledge. However, it risks becoming marginalized without more concerted efforts to demonstrate its relevance for contemporary social science. This volume showcases comparative area studies (CAS).
  table of contents: Comparative area studies: what it is, what it can do / Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil, and Ariel I. Ahram -- Comparative area studies: the golden mean between area studies and universalist approaches? / Dirk Berg-Schlosser -- Depth perception: improving analytic focus through cross-and interregional comparisons / Laurence Whitehead -- Comparisons across world regions: managing conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges / Christian von Soest and Alexander Stroh -- Context, concepts, and comparison in southeast Asian studies / Mikko Huotari and Jürgen Rüland -- American political development in the mirror of Europe: democracy expansion and the evolution of electoral systems in the 19th century / Amel Ahmed -- Comparative area studies and the study of Middle East politics after the Arab uprisings / André Bank -- Comparing post-communist authoritarianism in Russia and China: the case of anti-corruption campaigns / Cheng Chen -- Comparative area studies and the analytical challenge of diffusion: explaining outcomes in the Arab Spring and beyond / Airel I. Ahram -- Comparing separatism across regions: rebellious legacies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East / Benjamin Smith -- Gaining by shedding case selection strictures: natural resource booms and institution building in Latin America and Africa / Ryan Saylor -- Organizing production across regions: the Wenzhou Model in China and Italy / Calvin P. Chen -- Triangulating area studies, not just methods: how cross-regional comparison aids qualitative and mixed-method research / Rudra Sil.
  note: edited by Ariel Ahram, Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Area studies
    topic: Comparative method
  subject:
    topic: Études régionales
    topic: Méthode comparative
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Study & Teaching
  subject:
    topic: Area studies
  classification: D16.25 .C636 2018
  classification: 907.2
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    title info:
      title: Comparative area studies
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
    identifier: (DLC) 2017027189
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180110
    record change date: 20260319164520.2
    record identifier: in00005715388
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng