Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure

Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman

Cambridge University Press, 1997 - Political Science - 321 pages

Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure examines the major research traditions in comparative politics, assessing knowledge, advancing theory, and in the end seeking to direct research in the coming years. It begins by examining the three research schools that guide comparative politics: rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches. Margaret Levi, Marc Howard Ross, and Ira Katznelson offer briefs for each of the schools, presenting core principles, variations within each approach, and fresh combinations. A second set of authors then applies the research traditions to established fields of scholarship. Samuel H. Barnes examines work on mass politics, Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly synthesize studies of social movements and revolutions, Peter A. Hall contrasts new research on the political economy of established democracies, and Joel S. Migdal offers a new approach to studies of the state

About the author

Mark I. Lichbach is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.

Alan S. Zuckerman is a professor of political science, and former chair of the department, at Brown University and a research professor at the DIW (German Institute of Economic Research). He has served as a visiting professor and scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Istituto di Scienze Umane, Florence, Italy, New York University, the University of Pisa, Stanford University, Tel-Aviv University, and the University of Essex. He is the author of Politics of Faction: Christian Democratic Rule in Italy and Doing Political Science; co-author of The Transformation of the Jews; editor of The Social Logic of Politics: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior; and co-editor of Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Cambridge, 1997). In addition, Professor Zuckerman has published numerous articles in leading political science journals.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure; Cambridge studies in comparative politics
• Editors: Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0521583691, 9780521583695
• Length: 321 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Political Process / Leadership