Todd Landman & Neil Robinson 
The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics [PDF ebook] 

′Editors Landman and Robinson have compiled an excellent tour d′horizon of comparative politics. Distinguished contributors explore theoretical and methodological issues as well as examine the critical substantive domains that animate today′s comparativists. Graduate students and academics will want to keep this volume on their book shelf′ –
Professor Mark Irving Lichbach, University of Maryland

′The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is a major new resource for scholars of comparative politics, and of political science more generally. The Handbook covers the field with admirable thoroughness, but does not sacrifice depth for breadth. The chapters are written by notable scholars who provide rich discussions of their topics, and help to move the sub-discipline forward′ – B. Guy Peters, Professor, University of Pittsburgh

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics presents; in one volume, an authoritative overview of the theoretical, methodological and substantive elements of comparative political science. The 28 specially commissioned chapters, written by renowned comparative scholars, guide the reader through the central issues and debates, presenting a state-of-the-art guide to the past, present and possible futures of the field.

The Handbook is divided into three parts. The first considers comparative methodologies and reviews the interactions between various sub-fields of comparative politics: political economy; political sociology; area studies; international relations; and institutional analysis. The second section examines nine ′classic′ issues of concern to comparativists, including government formation, political behaviour and democratization. In the final section, nine new and emerging areas of comparative research are considered, such as terrorism, electoral corruption, human rights and regional integration.

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is an essential resource for researchers in political science, political sociology, political economy, international relations, area studies and all other fields with a comparative political dimension.

Cuprins

Introduction – Todd Landman and Neil Robinson

PART ONE: METHODS AND FIELDS OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS

The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research – Charles C Ragin and Claude Rubinson

Global Comparative Methods – Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis

Case Studies – Darren Hawkins

Is there a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing – James A Caporaso

Establishing Equivalence – Jan W van Deth

Comparative Political Sociology – Willfried Spohn

Comparative Institutional Analysis – Vivien A Schmidt

Comparative Political Economy – Thomas Pl mper

The Contribution of Area Studies – Stephen E Hanson

Comparative Politics and International Relations – John M Hobson

PART TWO: CLASSIC ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Postindustrial Democracies: Political economy and democratic partisan competition – Herbert Kitschelt

Government Formation – Wolfgang C M ller

Institutional Design – Josep M Colomer

Comparative Political Behaviour: What is being compared? – Shaun Bowler

Changes in the Causes of Democratization through Time – Barbara Geddes

Political Culture – Christian Welzel

Revolution – Jack A Goldstone

Social Movements – Vincent Boudreau and David S Meyer

Corruption – Paul Heywood

PART THREE: NEW AND EMERGING ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Electoral Authoritarianism – Andreas Schedler

Electoral Corruption – Sarah Birch

Comparative Federalism – David Mc Kay

Human Rights – Todd Landman

Governance – Philip Keefer

Terrorism – Jennifer S Holmes

Comparative Regional Integration and Regionalism – Fredrik Söderbaum

Transitional Justice – Paola Cesarini

The globalization of comparative public opinion research – Pippa Norris

Despre autor

Neil Robinson BA (CNAA), MA, Ph D (Essex) is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS). Prior to his appointment at Limerick he taught at the universities of York and Essex. His research interests focus on Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author of Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse, ( Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995), and Russia: a state of uncertainty, (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), co-author (with Karen Henderson) of Post-communist politics, (London: Prentice Hall, 1997). He is the editor or co-editor of Institutions and political change in Russia, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), (Aidan Hehir) State-building. Theory and practice, (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), and (with Todd Landman), The Sage handbook of comparative politics, (London: Sage, 2009), and The political economy of Russia, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) . He is the author of several book chapters and journal articles in, among other places, Soviet Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Review of International Political Economy.