Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0190846402
• ISBN-13: 9780190846404
• Author: Ariel I. Ahram; Patrick Köllner; Rudra Sil

In the post-World War II era, the emergence of ‘area studies’ marked a signal development in the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many dismissed area studies as favoring narrow description over general theory. Still, area studies continues to plays a key, if unacknowledged, role in bringing new data, new theories, and valuable policy-relevant insights to social sciences. In Comparative Area Studies, three leading figures in the field have gathered an international group of scholars in a volume that promises to be a landmark in a resurgent field. The book upholds two basic convictions: that intensive regional research remains indispensable to the social sciences and that this research needs to employ comparative referents from other regions to demonstrate its broader relevance. Comparative Area Studies (CAS) combines the context-specific insights from traditional area studies and the logic of cross- and inter-regional empirical research. This first book devoted to CAS explores methodological rationales and illustrative applications to demonstrate how area-based expertise can be fruitfully integrated with cutting-edge comparative analytical frameworks.

Table contents:

Part I Introduction
1. Comparative Area Studies: What It Is, What It Can Do
Part II What Comparative Area Studies Brings to the Table
2. Comparative Area Studies: The Golden Mean between Area Studies and Universalist Approaches?
3. Depth Perception: Improving Analytic Focus through Cross-and Interregional Comparisons
4. Comparisons across World Regions: Managing Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Challenges
5. Context, Concepts, and Comparison in Southeast Asian Studies
6. American Political Development in the Mirror of Europe: Democracy Expansion and the Evolution of Electoral Systems in the 19th Century
7. Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings
Part III CAS in Action: Leveraging Cross-Regional Comparison
8. Comparing Post-communist Authoritarianism in Russia and China: The Case of Anti-corruption Campaigns
9. Comparative Area Studies and the Analytical Challenge of Diffusion: Explaining Outcomes in the Arab Spring and Beyond
10. Comparing Separatism across Regions: Rebellious Legacies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
11. Gaining by Shedding Case Selection Strictures: Natural Resource Booms and Institution Building in Latin America and Africa
12. Organizing Production across Regions: The Wenzhou Model in China and Italy
Part IV Conclusion
13. Triangulating Area Studies, Not Just Methods: How Cross-Regional Comparison Aids Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research

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