Table of Contents

Volume One: Foundations and Early Exemplars
The Politics - Aristotle
Histories - Polybius
The Rise of the Roman Empire
The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun
Method for the Easy Comprehension of History - Jean Bodin
Comparative Political Analysis in Montesquieu and Tocqueville - Melvin Richter
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte - Auguste Comte
System of Logic - John Stuart Mill
On the Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions - Edward B Tylor
Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent
The Limitations of the Comparative Method in Anthropology - Franz Boas
Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples - L T Hobhouse, G C Wheeler and M Ginsberg
An Essay in Correlation
Comparative Analysis of Political Ideologies - Daniel Lerner, I Pool and H D Lasswell
A Preliminary Statement
The Comparative Method in Anthropology - A R Radcliffe-Brown
Volume Two: The Logic of Comparative Methods
Macrocomparative Research Methods - Kenneth A Bollen, Barbara Entwisle and Arthur S Anderson
Informing Generality and Explaining Uniqueness - York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace
The Place of Case Studies in Comparative Research
Historical Explanation and Comparative Method - A A van den Braembussche
Towards a Theory of the History of Society
Causal Inference and Comparative Methods - E Gene DeFelice
Strategies in Comparative Sociology - Mattei Dogan
Comparative Cross-National Methodology - Joseph W Elder
On the Scope and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research - N Frijda and G Jahoda
Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology - J H Goldthorpe
A Debate on Methodological Issues
Introduction - Bradford B Hudson, Mohamed K Barakat and Rolfe LaForge
Problems and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research
How Comparative Is Comparative Research? - Roger Jowell
Making Comparative Research Cumulative - Robert M Marsh
Galton′s Problem - Raoull Naroll
The Logic of Cross-Cultural Research
Theory and Method in Comparative Research - Charles Ragin and David Zaret
Two Strategies
Toward Comparative Historiography - Fritz Redlich
The Development of Cross-National Comparative Research - Stein Rokkan
A Review of Current Problems and Possibilities
The Comparative Method in Social Research - E A Suchman
Measurement in Comparative Research - Henry Teune
The Cross-Cultural Method - J W M Whiting
Volume Three: Data (Sources and Problems) and Contemporary Exemplars
PART ONE: DATA SOURCES AND PROBLEMS
Concepts, Context and Discourse in a Comparative Case Study - Emma Carmel
Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories - M Coppedge
Combining Large and Small in Comparative Politics
Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study - D Dion
Europe through the Looking-Glass - Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives
The Quality and Quantity of Data for Cross-Cultural Studies - Carol R Ember
Data Problems in Quantitative Comparative Analysis - Michael C Hudson
Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis - E S Lieberman
A Specification of Periodization Strategies
Comparative Field Studies - Robert L Munroe and Ruth H Munroe
Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and a Hermeneutic Approach to Interview Data - Kati Rentala and Eeva Hellstrom
Comparative Research, Experimental Design and the Comparative Method - H Teune
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY EXEMPLARS IN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Comparative Political Systems - Gabriel A Almond
A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics - David E Apter
The Comparative Study of Organizations - Peter Blau
Democracy with Adjectives - David Collier and S Levitsky
Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research
The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions - Jack A Goldstone
The Comparative Study of National Societies - Terry K Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein
The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology - E Kiser and Michael Hechter
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart
The Comparative Method in Political Studies - Leslie Lipson
Comparative Social Mobility - Judah Matras
Comparative Politics - Sigmund Neumann
A Half-Century Appraisal
Comparative Sociology and the Comparative Method - Charles C Ragin
Comparing Historical Sequences - A Powerful Tool for Causal Analysis - Dietrich Rueschemeyer and J D Stephens
The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry - Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers
Method and Theory in Comparative Urban Studies - David A Smith
Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology - Charles Tilly
PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY EXEMPLARS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION
The Comparative Method of Anthropology - Kenneth E Bock
Measurement of Education in Comparative Research - Michael Braun and Walter Muller
Case Study Research Methods and Comparative Education - Michael Crossley and Graham Vulliamy
Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison - Fred Eggan
The Comparative Method in Anthropological Perspective - E A Hammel
Cross-National Studies and the Analysis of Comparative Qualitative Research - Gerald LeTendre
Comparative Education - Francisco O Ramirez and John W Meyer
The Social Construction of the Modern World System
Research Strategies in Comparative Education - V D Rust et al
On Comparative Methods in Social-Cultural Anthropology and in Linguistics - Gopala Sarana
Volume Four: Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Problems and Prospects
PART ONE: QUALITATIVE METHODS
Where to Begin? A Survey of Five Approaches to Selecting Independent Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Edwin Amenta and J D Poulsen
Insights and Pitfalls - David Collier and James Mahoney
Selection Bias in Qualitative Research
Narrative as Data - Roberto Franzosi
Linguistic and Statistical Tools for the Qualitative Study of Historical Events
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction - A M Hicks
Nominal, Ordinal and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis - James Mahoney
Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis - Gerardo L Munck
The Logic of Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Charles C Ragin
Odious Comparisons - George Steinmetz
Incommensurability, the Case Study and ′Small N′s′ in Sociology
PART TWO: QUANTITATIVE METHODS
New Directions in Quantitative Comparative Sociology - Wil Arts and Loek Halman
Reduction of Complexity for a Small-N Analysis - D Berg-Schlosser and G De Meur
The Methodology of Necessary Conditions - Bear F Braumoeller and Gary Goertz
The Quantitative Study of National Character - Hayashi Chicko
Interchronological and International Perspectives
Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research - Jos Dessens, Wim Jansen and Kristen Ringdal
A Paradigm Lost?
Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study - Douglas Dion
Quantitative Cross-National Analysis as a Research Tool in the Sociology of Developing Countries - Mark Herkenrath
A Critical Examination
Small N′s and Big Conclusions - Stanley Lieberson
An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases
Strategies of Causal Inference in a Small-N Analysis - James Mahoney