Introduction / Todd Landman and Neil Robinson -- PART I Methods and Fields of Comparative Politics. 1 The Distinctiveness of Comparative Research / Charles C. Ragin and Claude Rubinson -- 2 Global Comparative Methods / Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis -- 3 Case Studies / Darren Hawkins -- 4 Is There a Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics? The Case of Process Tracing / James A. Caporaso -- 5 Establishing Equivalence / Jan W. van Deth -- 6 Comparative Political Sociology / Willfried Spohn -- 7 Comparative Institutional Analysis / Vivien A. Schmidt -- 8 Comparative Political Economy / Thomas Plümper -- 9 The Contribution of Area Studies / Stephen E. Hanson -- 10 Comparative Politics and International Relations / John M. Hobson.
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PART II Classic Issues in Comparative Politics. 11 Post-Industrial Democracies: Political Economy and Democratic Partisan Competition / Herbert Kitschelt -- 12 Government Formation / Wolfgang C. Müller -- 13 Institutional Design / Josep M. Colomer -- 14 Comparative Political Behaviour: What is being Compared? / Shaun Bowler -- 15 Changes in the Causes of Democratization Through Time / Barbara Geddes -- 16 Political Culture / Christian Welzel -- 17 Revolution / Jack A. Goldstone -- 18 Social Movements / Vincent Boudreau and David S. Meyer -- 19 Corruption / Paul Heywood.
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PART III New and Emerging Issues in Comparative Politics. 20 Electoral Authoritarianism / Andreas Schedler -- 21 Electoral Corruption / Sarah Birch -- 22 Comparative Federalism / David McKay -- 23 Human Rights / Todd Landman -- 24 Governance / Philip Keefer -- 25 Terrorism / Jennifer S. Holmes -- 26 Comparative Regional Integration and Regionalism / Fredrik Söderbaum -- 27 Transitional Justice / Paola Cesarini -- 28 The Globalization of Comparative Public Opinion Research / Pippa Norris.
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This Handbook presents in one volume an authoritative overview of the theoretical, methodological, and substantive elements of comparative political science.