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Doing Political Science
In this concise but wide-ranging text, Alan Zuckerman introduces the reader to the various approaches to political explanation. He shows how researchers espousing different theoretical assumptions, levels of explanation, variables, and data come to offer conflicting accounts of the phenomena to be studied. He then introduces five paradigms of polit
Comparative Politics
This book reassesses the research schools 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. The first set of contributors offer briefs for each of the schools, presenting core principles, variations within each approach, and fresh combinations. A second set of authors applies the research schools to established fields of scholarship. The concluding section contains essays by the editors, returning the focus to the theme of advanced theory in comparative politics.
The Social Logic of Politics
Uses classic theories to explain individuals' political decisions to examine what influences these decisions
The Social Logic of Politics
Re-establishes the connection between social life and political behavior.
The Transformation of the Jews
Examines how Jewish society, politics, and culture have changed during the past two centuries and describes how modernization and widespread emigration affected the Jewish community
Comparative Politics
This revised edition of Comparative Politics offers an assessment of the past decade of scholarship in comparative politics.
Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability
The question of whether Western party systems were becoming more unstable and electorates more volatile had already become central to the study of modern European by the end of the 1970s. Much of the literature at the time stressed how Western Europe was experiencing a phase of party breakdown, dealignment and decay, and how traditional mass politics was in the process of transformation. In this first book-length analysis of the subject, Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair convincingly demonstrated how this emphasis on change had been largely misconceived and misplaced. This was the first systematic and conceptually sophisticated work to bring together the study of electoral change and cleavage...
Partisan Families
This book shows that the opinions of family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours influence people's political decisions.
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Information, Participation, and Choice
A review of the consequences for political science of Anthony Downs's seminal work.
