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Comparing nations : concepts, strategies, substance / edited by Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 1994.ISBN:
  • 0631186441
  • 063118645X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.3 20
Contents:
Introduction: Strategies in Comparative Research / Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil -- 1. Compare Why and How: Comparing, Miscomparing and the Comparative Method / Giovanni Sartori -- 2. Use and Misuse of Statistics in Comparative Research: Limits to Quantification in Comparative Politics: The Gap Between Substance and Method / Mattei Dogan -- 3. Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective / Fred W. Riggs -- 4. Binary Comparisons: American Exceptionalism - Japanese Uniqueness / Seymour Martin Lipset -- 5. The Deviant Case in Comparative Analysis: High Stateness in a Muslim Society: The Case of Turkey / Ali Kazancigil -- 6. Comparing Similar Countries: Problems of Conceptualization and Comparability in Latin America / John D. Martz -- 7. Asynchronic Comparisons: Weak States in Post-Colonial Africa and Mediaeval Europe / Joshua B. Forrest -- 8. The Pendulum Between Theory and Substance: Testing the Concepts of Legitimacy and Trust / Mattei Dogan.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Strategies in Comparative Research / Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil -- 1. Compare Why and How: Comparing, Miscomparing and the Comparative Method / Giovanni Sartori -- 2. Use and Misuse of Statistics in Comparative Research: Limits to Quantification in Comparative Politics: The Gap Between Substance and Method / Mattei Dogan -- 3. Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective / Fred W. Riggs -- 4. Binary Comparisons: American Exceptionalism - Japanese Uniqueness / Seymour Martin Lipset -- 5. The Deviant Case in Comparative Analysis: High Stateness in a Muslim Society: The Case of Turkey / Ali Kazancigil -- 6. Comparing Similar Countries: Problems of Conceptualization and Comparability in Latin America / John D. Martz -- 7. Asynchronic Comparisons: Weak States in Post-Colonial Africa and Mediaeval Europe / Joshua B. Forrest -- 8. The Pendulum Between Theory and Substance: Testing the Concepts of Legitimacy and Trust / Mattei Dogan.