Issues and Alternatives in Comparative Social Research

Abcde Amenta American Sociological Review approach argues argument Boolean capitalism causal cities collective action combines comparative analysis comparative historical Comparative Method comparative research comparative social comparative urban comparison configuration context corporatism corporatist countries cross-national research cross-sectional decline period democracy democratic dependent development and democracy discourse economic development empirical employment explanation external analysis Griffin growth Guatemala guerrillas industrial instances Kohn labor movement labour market Latin America Latin American revolutions logic London ment methodological military networks Nicaragua organized Ottoman outcome patterns peasant support political problems programs public spending qualitative quantitative research Ragin regimes relations research design revolution revolutionary rural similar Skocpol social spending societies Sociology specific spending policies statistical strength structure studies Swindon Table Theda Skocpol theoretical theory Third World time-series tions trade union trajectories union decline union LOSS United University Press variables village West Germany York