The Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics

Introduction - Todd Landman and Neil RobinsonPART ONE: METHODS AND FIELDS OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research - Charles C Ragin and Claude RubinsonGlobal Comparative Methods - Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis Case Studies - Darren HawkinsIs there a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing - James A CaporasoEstablishing Equivalence - Jan W van DethComparative Political Sociology - Willfried SpohnComparative Institutional Analysis - Vivien A SchmidtComparative Political Economy - Thomas Pl mperThe Contribution of Area Studies - Stephen E HansonComparative Politics and International Relations - John M HobsonPART TWO: CLASSIC ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICSPostindustrial Democracies: Political economy and democratic partisan competition - Herbert KitscheltGovernment Formation - Wolfgang C M ller Institutional Design - Josep M ColomerComparative Political Behaviour: What is being compared? - Shaun BowlerChanges in the Causes of Democratization through Time - Barbara GeddesPolitical Culture - Christian WelzelRevolution - Jack A GoldstoneSocial Movements - Vincent Boudreau and David S MeyerCorruption - Paul HeywoodPART THREE: NEW AND EMERGING ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICSElectoral Authoritarianism - Andreas SchedlerElectoral Corruption - Sarah BirchComparative Federalism - David McKayHuman Rights - Todd LandmanGovernance - Philip KeeferTerrorism - Jennifer S HolmesComparative Regional Integration and Regionalism - Fredrik SöderbaumTransitional Justice - Paola CesariniThe globalization of comparative public opinion research - Pippa Norris

Todd Landman is a Reader in the Department of Government and Director of the Centre for Democratic Governance at the University of Essex. His research interests include human rights; international relations; and quantitative and qualitative political methodology. He is author of Studying Human Rights (Routledge 2006), Protecting Human Rights (Georgetown 2005), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge 2000, 2003, 2008); co-author of Measuring Human Rights (Routledge 2009), Governing Latin America (Polity 2003), and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements (Oxford 1997, 2000); and co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (2009). He has also authored numerous articles, reports, review essays, book notes, and other publications, reviews manuscripts for numerous peer-reviewed journals, and serves on the editorial board of Human Rights and Human Welfare and The Journal of Latin American Studies. Neil Robinson BA (CNAA), MA, PhD (Essex) is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS). Prior to his appointment at Limerick he taught at the universities of York and Essex. His research interests focus on Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author of Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse,( Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995), and Russia: a state of uncertainty, (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), co-author (with Karen Henderson) of Post-communist politics, (London: Prentice Hall, 1997). He is the editor or co-editor of Institutions and political change in Russia, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), (Aidan Hehir) State-building. Theory and practice, (London and New York: Routledge,

'Editors Landman and Robinson have compiled an excellent tour d'horizon of comparative politics. Distinguished contributors explore theoretical and methodological issues as well as examine the critical substantive domains that animate today's comparativists. Graduate students and academics will want to keep this volume on their book shelf' - Professor Mark Irving Lichbach, University of Maryland



'The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics is a major new resource for scholars of comparative politics, and of political science more generally. The Handbook covers the field with admirable thoroughness, but does not sacrifice depth for breadth. The chapters are written by notable scholars who provide rich discussions of their topics, and help to move the sub-discipline forward' - B. Guy Peters, Professor, University of Pittsburgh