Article2009

The nature and future of comparative politics

100 citations0/0 files storedEuropean Political Science Review

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Political Science Research and Education Electoral Systems and Political Participation Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research

Abstract

The future of comparative politics is in doubt. This sub-discipline of political science currently faces a ‘crossroads’ that will determine its nature and role. In this essay, I make a (willfully distorted) plea that it should eschew the alternative of continuing to follow one or another versions of ‘institutionalism’ or that of opting completely for ‘simplification’ based on rational choice. It should embrace the ‘complex interdependence’ of the contemporary political universe and adjust its selection of cases and concepts accordingly. Without pretending to offer a novel paradigm or method. I explore some of the implications of conducting comparative research in this more contingent and less predictable context.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 100 citations exist upstream.

References

1970Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics 2014The Comparative Method 1986Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons 1983Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons 1996Constructing Social Research.2003GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 1994Constructing social research 1996Imagining the Future of the Euro-Polity with the Help of New Concepts

Cited by

2019The Art and Craft of Comparison 2011Interactive Diffusion 2010Rethinking EU Studies: The Contribution of Comparative Regionalism 2016Where Did the Revolution Go?: Contentious Politics and the Quality of Democracy 2016Complex Adaptive Systems and Comparative Politics: Modeling the Interaction between Institutions and Culture 2020TEXT OF POLICY IN THE BACKGROUND OF CIVILIZATIONAL CONTEXTS AND SUBTEXTS AS A MISSING ELEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.