Passion, craft, and method in comparative politics
In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the twentieth century. Organized around a broad set of themes -- intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the past and future of comparative politics -- these in-depth interviews offer unique and candid reflections that bring the research process to life and shed light on the human dimension of scholarship. 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
Print Book, English, 2007
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007
Interview
xii, 773 pages ; 24 cm
9780801884634, 9780801884641, 0801884632, 0801884640
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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