The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 47 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. About the Contributors ix PART I INTRODUCTION Introduction 3(24) Carles Boix Susan C. Stokes PART II THEORY AND METHODOLOGY Multicausality, Context-Conditionality, and Endogeneity 27(46) Robert J. Franzese, Jr. Historical Enquiry and Comparative Politics 73(17) James Mahoney Celso M. Villegas The Case Study: What it is and What it Does 90(33) John Gerring Field Research 123(24) Elisabeth Jean Wood Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible? 147(25) Adam Przeworski From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research 172(14) Robert H. Bates Collective Action Theory 186(25) Elinor Ostrom PART III STATES AND STATE FORMATION POLITICAL CONSENT War, Trade, and State Formation 211(25) Hendrik Spruyt Compliance, Consent, and Legitimacy 236(20) Russell Hardin National Identity 256(18) Liah Greenfeld Jonathan Eastwood Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict 274(23) Ashutosh Varshney PART IV POLITICAL REGIMES AND TRANSITIONS Mass Beliefs and Democratic Institutions 297(20) Christian Welzel Ronald Inglehart What Causes Democratization? 317(23) Barbara Geddes Democracy and Civic Culture 340(23) Filippo Sabetti Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches 363(34) Ronald Wintrobe PART V POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POLITICAL CONFLICT Rethinking Revolutions: A Neo-Tocquevillian Perspective 397(19) Steven Pincus Civil Wars 416(19) Stathis N. Kalyvas Contentious Politics and Social Movements 435(26) Sidney Tarrow Charles Tilly Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements 461(38) Mark I. Lichbach Helma G. E. De Vries PART VI MASS POLITICAL MOBILIZATION The Emergence of Parties and Party Systems 499(23) Carles Boix Party Systems 522(33) Herbert Kitschelt Voters and Parties 555(27) Anne Wren Kenneth M. McElwain Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies 582(22) Frances Hagopian Political Clientelism 604(24) Susan C. Stokes Political Activism: New Challenges, New Opportunities 628(25) Pippa Norris PART VII PROCESSING POLITICAL DEMANDS Aggregating and Representing Political Preferences 653(25) G. Bingham Powell, Jr. Electoral Systems 678(25) Rein Taagepera Separation of Powers 703(24) David Samuels Comparative Judicial Politics 727(25) John Ferejohn Frances Rosenbluth Charles Shipan Federalism 752(30) Pablo Beramendi Coalition Theory and Government Formation 782(23) Kaare Strøm Benjamin Nyblade PART VIII GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Comparative Studies of the Economy and the Vote 805(40) Raymond M. Duch Context-Conditional Political Budget Cycles 845(23) James E. Alt Shanna S. Rose The Welfare State in Global Perspective 868(18) Matthew E. Carnes Isabela Mares The Poor Performance of Poor Democracies 886(24) Philip Keeper Accountability and the Survival of Governments 910(30) Jose Maria Maravall Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics 940(29) Timothy Frye Index 969