Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Mahoney James, 1968-; Rueschemeyer Dietrich.
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, U.K. New York
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xix, 444 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0521816106
0521016452 (pb.)
Index Number: C3
CLC: C3
Call Number: C3/C737
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comparative-historical analysis: achievements and agendas / James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- Comparative-historical analysis and knowledge accumulation in the study of revolutions / Jack A. Goldstone -- What we know about the development of social policy : comparative and historical research in comparative and historical perspective / Edwin Amenta -- Knowledge accumulation in comparative-historical research : the case of democracy and authoritarianism / James Mahoney -- Big, slow-moving, and ... invisible : macro-social processes in the study of comparative politics / Paul Pierson -- How institutions evolve : insights from comparative historical analysis / Kathleen Thelen -- Uses of network tools in comparative historical research / Roger V. Gould -- Periodization and preferences : reflections on purposive action in comparative historical social science / Ira Katznelson -- Can one or a few cases yield theoretical gains? / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- Strategies of causal assessment in comparative historical analysis / James Mahoney -- Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics / Peter A. Hall -- Doubly engaged social science : the promise of comparative historical analysis / Theda Skocpol.