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Passion, craft, and method in comparative politics / Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder ; interview with Gabriel A. Almond ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munck, Gerardo L. (Gerardo Luis), 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative government--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States.
- Comparative government.
- Political scientists--United States--Interviews.
- Political scientists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (789 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Giving voice to scholars who practice their craft in different ways yet share a passion for knowledge about global politics, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics offers a wealth of insights into contemporary debates about the state of knowledge in comparative politics and the future of the field.
- Contents:
- The human dimension of comparative research / Richard Snyder
- The past and present of comparative politics / Gerardo L. Munck
- The interviews: Gabriel A. Almond: structural functionalism and political development
- Barrington Moore, Jr.: the critical spirit and comparative historical analysis
- Robert A. Dahl: normative theory, empirical research, and democracy
- Juan J. Linz: political regimes and the quest for knowledge
- Samuel P. Huntington: order and conflict in global perspective
- Arend Lijphart: political institutions, divided societies, and consociational democracy
- Guillermo O'Donnell: democratization, political engagement, and agenda-setting research
- Philippe C. Schmitter: corporatism, democracy, and conceptual traveling
- James C. Scott: peasants, power, and the art of resistance
- Alfred Stepan: democratic governance and the craft of case-based research
- Adam Przeworski: capitalism, democracy, and science
- Robert H. Bates: markets, politics, and choice
- David Collier: critical junctions, concepts, and methods
- David D. Laitin: culture, rationality, and the search for discipline
- Theda Skocpol: states, revolutions, and the comparative historical imagination.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [711]-756) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780801892059
- 0801892058
- OCLC:
- 923193781
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