This volume breaks new ground in addressing a number of critical
issues confronting contemporary comparative politics, including the
increasing interdependence of countries in the era of enhanced
globalization, different levels of political authority and
structures of governance, the search for elegant parsimonious
explanation and the possibilities for a real accumulation of
knowledge. The contributions all problematize comparative politics
in ways that have not been done before and add remarkable insight
for scholars in the field. This is highly recommended.' - Todd
Landman, University of Nottingham, UK and author of Issues and
Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge 2000, 2003, 2008,
2016)'The challenges that comparative politics faces have, in most
cases, been discussed as fragmented and separate treatments. Rarely
are they presented systematically and in an encompassing manner, as
in the present volume, which covers a variety of subdisciplines.
The editors and contributors should be complimented for offering
methodologists and empirical comparativists a structured and
integrated volume in which the various challenges are not only
discussed in depth, but also linked together, rather than in
isolation.' - Daniele Caramani, University of Zurich, Switzerland
What are the conceptual and methodological challenges facing
comparative politics today? This informative book discusses four
main challenges that create stress for disciplinary reproduction
and advancement, while providing potential solutions. In seven
chapters, the contributors cover the most pressing issues: the
dissolution of the nation-state as the main objective of inquiry;
the increasing complexity of concepts and methods; the capacity to
accumulate knowledge; and the tensions between parsimonious and
contextually rich explanations. Scholars and students of
comparative politics, international relations and political science
will be interested in the up-to-date overview of pertinent
conceptual problems, as well as the possible ways forward.
Practitioners and decision-makers will find the real-world examples
provided in this book useful to their work. Contributors: D. Braun,
O.Giraud, D. Jahn, D. Kuebler, M. Maggetti, S. Stephan
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