Comparative political studies comunicacao eleitoral. Devils lie at the back of this set of highpowered essays on the state of play within comparative historical studies. This literature offers methodological tools for causal and descriptive inference that go beyond the techniques. Advances in comparativehistorical analysis edited by. Historical enquiry and comparative politics oxford handbooks. The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning comparativehistorical. Hall, p 2003 aligning ontology and methodology in comparative research. It identifies three major traits of cha that make this tradition an especially powerful approach for the study of development.
Comparativehistorical analysis american sociological. Qualitative methodology and comparative politics james mahoney northwestern university, evanston, illinois leading methods for pursuing qualitative research in the field of comparative politics are discussed. Aug 11, 2004 comparative historical methodology comparative historical methodology mahoney, james 20040811 00. An introduction 1 since the rise of the social sciences, researchers have used comparativehistorical methods to expand insight into diverse social phenomena and, in so doing, have made great contributions to our understanding of the social world. Comparativehistorical methodology offers two solutions to these concerns. Comparativehistorical methods sage publications ltd. Comparativehistorical analysis in contemporary political.
Strategies of causal assessment in comparative historical analysis james mahoney. Comparative historical research is a method of social science that examines historical events in order to create explanations that are valid beyond a particular time and place, either by direct comparison to other historical events, theory building, or reference to the present day. The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning comparativehistorical methods. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences mahoney james ed. Comparativehistorical analysis and development studies. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar.
In the area of descriptive inference, the comparative historical literature offers important tools for concept analysis and for achieving measurement validity. Advances in comparative historical analysis james mahoney, kathleen thelen against the backdrop of an explosion of interest in new techniques for data collection and theory testing, this volume provides a fresh programmatic statement about comparative historical analysis. This essay concentrates on comparative politics, a field often defined by reference to the use of a particular comparative method, but it also bears on sociology, where there is active controversy about methodological issues. Comparative historical analysis cha is featured centrally among the best known studies of macro.
Comparative historical analysis uses systematic comparison and analysis of. In rare instances, a publisher has elected to have a zero moving wall, so their current issues are available. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, and it will represent a challenge to many other social scientists especially those who have raised skeptical concerns about comparative historical analysis in the past. Some of the liveliest debates about methodology in the social sciences center on comparative research.
All content in this area was uploaded by james mahoney on mar 27, 2014. Pdf comparative historical analysis ece ozceri academia. This essay first explores how the defining features of comparative historical analysis cha endow this approach with comparative advantages for substantive research on macro development. James mahoney is a comparative historical researcher with interests in political development, latin america, and methodology. Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics peter a. This article discusses process tracing as a methodology for testing hypotheses in the social sciences. Abstract the last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing lit.
Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences pdf free. Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative research. Hall, aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics, in james mahoney and dietrich rueschemeyer eds, comparative historical analysis in the social sciences cambridge. Pdf comparativehistorical methodology researchgate. Comparative historical studies that use regression analysis in the course of process tracing are not necessarily more powerful than comparative historical studies that do not use any statistical testing. Given these contributions, comparative historical methods merit a central place within the general field of social science methodology. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences cambridge studies in comparative politics mahoney, james, rueschemeyer, dietrich on. Books by james mahoney author of comparative historical. Includes an introductory essay placing developments in comparative historical sociology into three historical waves, as well as contributions on new directions in historical sociology.
There is nothing inherently wrong with conducting comparative historical work that does not include a statistical component and vice versa. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences edited by. Cambridge core political sociology advances in comparative historical analysis edited by james mahoney. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences 30c. The logic of process tracing tests in the social sciences. Contrasting quantitative and qualitative research james mahoney departments of political science and sociology, northwestern university, evanston, il 602081006 email. This article discusses historical enquiry, which has always been central to the field of comparative politics. Comparative historical methodology james mahoney department of sociology, brown university, providence, rhode island 02912. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences by.
The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in jstor and the most recently published issue of a journal. Comparativehistorical analysis uses systematic comparison and analysis of. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences edited by james mahoney. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including. Isbn 9781107110021 hardback isbn 9781107525634 paperback 1. James mahoney and dietrich rueschemeyer, comparative historical analysis in the social sciences cambridge, 2003. Larkin terrie, comparativehistorical analysis in contemporary political science, in henry brady, janet m. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences edited. Larkin terrie, comparative historical analysis in contemporary political science, in henry brady, janet m.
Comparative historical analysis, casebased methods, comparative methods. James mahoney and dietrich rueschemeyer comparative historical analysis has a long and distinguished history in the social sciences. It examines the various methods of causal analysis and temporal analysis, and shows how historical analysts properly use historical data. Manuscript s in press or in progress to the extent possible, iqmr uses the most uptodate readings on the methods covered at the institute. Advances in comparativehistorical analysis edited by james mahoney and kathleen thelen. Diverse tools, shared standards rowman and littlefield, 2004. This article shows that historical analysis embodies a distinctive set of techniques for the assessment of causal hypotheses, for the analysis of. Advances in comparativehistorical analysis james mahoney. Tulia falleti and james mahoney, the comparative sequential method, in james mahoney and kathleen thelen, eds. Indeed, any list of the most influential social scientists. James mahoney, process tracing and historical explanation, security studies 24. On one hand, qualitative researchers in this field use a variety of methods of theory development. Henry brady and david collier, rethinking social inquiry.
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