CHAPTER TWO: THEORETICAL APPROACHES

a. Which theoretical approach is most useful for students of comparative politics and why?

b. What are the strengths and weakness of the institutional approach to the study of politics?

Hague & Harrop, 2010 edn, ch. 2.

D. Marsh and G. Stoker, Theory and Methods in Political Science
T. Landman, Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction
M. Lichbach and A. Zuckerman, Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure
B. Guy Peters, Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods
B. Guy Peters, Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism
R. Rhodes, S. Binder and B. Rockman, The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions

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