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