The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning
comparative-historical methods. This literature offers methodological tools for causal and …

A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal
inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as …

Democratization has swept the globe over the past generation, and analysts and policy
makers have been struggling to keep up. Bookshelves have been filled with case studies …

In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public
policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of …

Page 1 STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two
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This article outlines a “sobjectivist” methodology that is specifically geared toward the
constructivist style of reasoning. The main argument is that constructivist inquiries need to …

Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both
democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes …

Comparative-historical analysis (CHA) has a long and distinguished pedigree in political
science. In a discipline in which a succession of different movements has advocated new …

EDITORIAL PREAMBLE: The first issue of Water Alternatives presents a set of papers that
investigates the inherently political nature of water resources management. A Water, Politics …

Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules
governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed …