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Contents for Volume 8 (1997)

Volume 8, Number 1 (Winter 1997) (573 kb)
Bates: Letter from the President: Theory in Comparative Politics?
News and Notes
Golden: Letter from the Editor
Notes from the Annual Meetings
Weingast: Formal Theory in Comparative Politics
Book Previews
Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure

  • Lichbach and Zuckerman: Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure
  • Levi: A Model, A Method, and a Map: rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis
  • Katznelson: Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics
  • Ross: Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis
  • Barnes: Electoral Behavior and Comparative Politics
  • McAdam, Tilly, and Tarrow: Towards an Integrated Perspective on Social Movements and Revolution
  • Hall: The Role of Interests, Institutions and Ideas in the Comparative Political Economy of the Industrialized Nations
  • Migdal: Studying the State
  • Lichbach: What is the Current State of Theory in Comparative Politics?
  • Zuckerman: Refomulating Scientific Understanding and Advancing Theory in Comparative Politics

Other Book Previews

  • Geddes: Paradigms and Sandcastles: Research Design in Comparative Politics
  • King: A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data
  • Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub and Limongi: Democracy and Development: Political Regimes and Economic Performance, 1950-1990

Data Sets and Archives

  • Laitin: Data, Archiving, and the Real World of Comparative Scholarship

Book Reviews

  • Keat: Review of Boycko, Schleifer, and Vishny, Privatizing Russia
  • Lewis: Review of Grindle, Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
  • Wibbels: Review of Keohane and Milner (eds.), Internationalization and Domestic Politics

Erratum: Page 21. In the chart, the left-hand column should bear the title "Vote," the right-hand column "No Vote."

Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer 1997) (271 kb)
Bates: Letter from the President: Farewell
Letters to the Editor
Section Prizes
News and Notes
Debate: Notes from the Annual Meetings: Culture and Rational Choice

  • Bermeo: Introduction: Joining Tables?
  • Bates: Rational Choice and Political Culture
  • Johnson: Symbol and Strategy in Comparative Political Analysis
  • Laitin: Game Theory and Culture
  • Lustick: Culture and the Wager of Rational Choice
  • Rogowski: Rational Choice as a Weberian View of Culture
  • Tsebelis: Rational Choice and Culture
  • Varshney: Cultures and Modes of Rationality

Continuing Debates: Area Studies

  • Hall: Comparative Politics and Area Studies

Data Sets and Archives

  • Quinn and Toyoda: International Financial Regulation for Twenty-One Countries, 1950-1994

Book Reviews

  • Kocher: Review of Bates, Open Economy Politics: The Political economy of the World Coffee Trade
  • Del Priore: Review of Locke, Remaking the Italian Economy
  • Reichert: Review of Laver and Shepsle, Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies
  • Wieland: Review of Haggard and Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions

Erratum: Page 21. In the chart, the left-hand column should bear the title "Vote," the right-hand column "No Vote."

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