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Frontmatter – Table of contents – INTRODUCTION. A programme for the advancement of comparative social science research: the action of the International Social Science Council – PART I: Cross-cultural comparisons – CHAPTER I. The logic of cross-cultural analysis: why exceptions? – CHAPTER II. Computer summarization of the coded cross-cultural literature – PART II: Comparative histories of processes of development – CHAPTER III. Concepts in comparative historical analysis – CHAPTER IV. Comparative analysis of processes of modernization – CHAPTER V. Political systems and political development – CHAPTER VI. Historians and other social scientists: the comparative analysis of nation-building in Western societies – CHAPTER VII. Modern nations and the study of political modernization – CHAPTER VIII. The empirical and statistical basis for comparative analyses of historical change – PART III: Quantitative approaches to cross-national comparisons – CHAPTER IX. Research possibilities using aggregate political and social data – CHAPTER X. Aggregate comparisons: problems and prospects of quantitative analysis based on national accounts – CHAPTER XI. Aggregate comparisons: the validity and reliability of economic data – CHAPTER XII. The cross-cultural use of sample surveys: problems of comparability – CHAPTER XIII. Survey materials collected in the developing countries: obstacles to comparisons