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CHAPTER FIVE: THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH

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a. What, in your view, can the comparative method contribute to the study of politics?

b. Should comparative politics focus on the institutions of government or the societies in which they operate?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch.5.

R. Goodin and H. Klingemann, eds, A New Handbook of Political Science, chs by

Mair and by Ragin, Berg-Schlosser and de Meur

T. Janoski and A. Hicks, eds, The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare

State , ch. by Ragin

H. Keman, ed., Comparative Politics: New Directions in Theory and Method

G. King, R. Keohane and S. Verba, Designing Social Research

T. Landman, Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction

A. Lijphart, 'Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,' American Political

Science Review 65 (1971) 682-93.

B. Guy Peters, Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods

B. Guy Peters, Institutional Theory in Political Science

R. Rose, 'Comparing Forms of Comparative Analysis,' Political Studies 39 (1991)

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