Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences

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Volume One: Foundations and Early Exemplars The Politics - Aristotle Histories - Polybius The Rise of the Roman Empire The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun Method for the Easy Comprehension of History - Jean Bodin Comparative Political Analysis in Montesquieu and Tocqueville - Melvin Richter The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte - Auguste Comte System of Logic - John Stuart Mill On the Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions - Edward B Tylor Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent The Limitations of the Comparative Method in Anthropology - Franz Boas Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples - L T Hobhouse, G C Wheeler and M Ginsberg An Essay in Correlation Comparative Analysis of Political Ideologies - Daniel Lerner, I Pool and H D Lasswell A Preliminary Statement The Comparative Method in Anthropology - A R Radcliffe-Brown Volume Two: The Logic of Comparative Methods Macrocomparative Research Methods - Kenneth A Bollen, Barbara Entwisle and Arthur S Anderson Informing Generality and Explaining Uniqueness - York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace The Place of Case Studies in Comparative Research Historical Explanation and Comparative Method - A A van den Braembussche Towards a Theory of the History of Society Causal Inference and Comparative Methods - E Gene DeFelice Strategies in Comparative Sociology - Mattei Dogan Comparative Cross-National Methodology - Joseph W Elder On the Scope and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research - N Frijda and G Jahoda Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology - J H Goldthorpe A Debate on Methodological Issues Introduction - Bradford B Hudson, Mohamed K Barakat and Rolfe LaForge Problems and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research How Comparative Is Comparative Research? - Roger Jowell Making Comparative Research Cumulative - Robert M Marsh Galton's Problem - Raoull Naroll The Logic of Cross-Cultural Research Theory and Method in Comparative Research - Charles Ragin and David Zaret Two Strategies Toward Comparative Historiography - Fritz Redlich The Development of Cross-National Comparative Research - Stein Rokkan A Review of Current Problems and Possibilities The Comparative Method in Social Research - E A Suchman Measurement in Comparative Research - Henry Teune The Cross-Cultural Method - J W M Whiting Volume Three: Data (Sources and Problems) and Contemporary Exemplars PART ONE: DATA SOURCES AND PROBLEMS Concepts, Context and Discourse in a Comparative Case Study - Emma Carmel Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories - M Coppedge Combining Large and Small in Comparative Politics Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study - D Dion Europe through the Looking-Glass - Bernhard Ebbinghaus Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives The Quality and Quantity of Data for Cross-Cultural Studies - Carol R Ember Data Problems in Quantitative Comparative Analysis - Michael C Hudson Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis - E S Lieberman A Specification of Periodization Strategies Comparative Field Studies - Robert L Munroe and Ruth H Munroe Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities Qualitative Comparative Analysis and a Hermeneutic Approach to Interview Data - Kati Rentala and Eeva Hellstrom Comparative Research, Experimental Design and the Comparative Method - H Teune PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY EXEMPLARS IN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Comparative Political Systems - Gabriel A Almond A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics - David E Apter The Comparative Study of Organizations - Peter Blau Democracy with Adjectives - David Collier and S Levitsky Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions - Jack A Goldstone The Comparative Study of National Societies - Terry K Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology - E Kiser and Michael Hechter Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart The Comparative Method in Political Studies - Leslie Lipson Comparative Social Mobility - Judah Matras Comparative Politics - Sigmund Neumann A Half-Century Appraisal Comparative Sociology and the Comparative Method - Charles C Ragin Comparing Historical Sequences - A Powerful Tool for Causal Analysis - Dietrich Rueschemeyer and J D Stephens The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry - Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers Method and Theory in Comparative Urban Studies - David A Smith Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology - Charles Tilly PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY EXEMPLARS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION The Comparative Method of Anthropology - Kenneth E Bock Measurement of Education in Comparative Research - Michael Braun and Walter Muller Case Study Research Methods and Comparative Education - Michael Crossley and Graham Vulliamy Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison - Fred Eggan The Comparative Method in Anthropological Perspective - E A Hammel Cross-National Studies and the Analysis of Comparative Qualitative Research - Gerald LeTendre Comparative Education - Francisco O Ramirez and John W Meyer The Social Construction of the Modern World System Research Strategies in Comparative Education - V D Rust et al On Comparative Methods in Social-Cultural Anthropology and in Linguistics - Gopala Sarana Volume Four: Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Problems and Prospects PART ONE: QUALITATIVE METHODS Where to Begin? A Survey of Five Approaches to Selecting Independent Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Edwin Amenta and J D Poulsen Insights and Pitfalls - David Collier and James Mahoney Selection Bias in Qualitative Research Narrative as Data - Roberto Franzosi Linguistic and Statistical Tools for the Qualitative Study of Historical Events Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction - A M Hicks Nominal, Ordinal and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis - James Mahoney Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis - Gerardo L Munck The Logic of Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Charles C Ragin Odious Comparisons - George Steinmetz Incommensurability, the Case Study and 'Small N's' in Sociology PART TWO: QUANTITATIVE METHODS New Directions in Quantitative Comparative Sociology - Wil Arts and Loek Halman Reduction of Complexity for a Small-N Analysis - D Berg-Schlosser and G De Meur The Methodology of Necessary Conditions - Bear F Braumoeller and Gary Goertz The Quantitative Study of National Character - Hayashi Chicko Interchronological and International Perspectives Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research - Jos Dessens, Wim Jansen and Kristen Ringdal A Paradigm Lost? Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study - Douglas Dion Quantitative Cross-National Analysis as a Research Tool in the Sociology of Developing Countries - Mark Herkenrath A Critical Examination Small N's and Big Conclusions - Stanley Lieberson An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases Strategies of Causal Inference in a Small-N Analysis - James Mahoney