Indeed, any list of the most influential social scientists. Includes an introductory essay placing developments in comparative historical sociology into three historical waves, as well as contributions on new directions in historical sociology. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in jstor and the most recently published issue of a journal. Historical enquiry and comparative politics oxford handbooks.
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. 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. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences 30c. Comparativehistorical methodology offers two solutions to these concerns. Advances in comparativehistorical analysis edited by. Mahoney, j, rueschemeyer, d eds comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. Isbn 9781107110021 hardback isbn 9781107525634 paperback 1.
Books by james mahoney author of comparative historical. The logic of process tracing tests in the social sciences. Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative research. James mahoney is a comparative historical researcher with interests in political development, latin america, and methodology. Advances in comparativehistorical analysis james mahoney. Larkin terrie, comparativehistorical analysis in contemporary political science, in henry brady, janet m. Cambridge core political sociology comparative historical analysis in the social sciences edited by james mahoney. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences edited by james mahoney. This literature offers methodological tools for causal and descriptive inference that go beyond the techniques.
This article shows that historical analysis embodies a distinctive set of techniques for the assessment of causal hypotheses, for the analysis of. 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. 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. Aug 11, 2004 comparative historical methodology comparative historical methodology mahoney, james 20040811 00. Diverse tools, shared standards rowman and littlefield, 2004. Comparative historical methodology james mahoney department of sociology, brown university, providence, rhode island 02912.
Comparative political studies comunicacao eleitoral. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including. Abstract the last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing lit. Comparativehistorical analysis in contemporary political. James mahoney, process tracing and historical explanation, security studies 24. Given these contributions, comparative historical methods merit a central place within the general field of social science methodology. Strategies of causal assessment in comparative historical analysis james mahoney. Tulia falleti and james mahoney, the comparative sequential method, in james mahoney and kathleen thelen, eds. There is nothing inherently wrong with conducting comparative historical work that does not include a statistical component and vice versa. Larkin terrie, comparative historical analysis in contemporary political science, in henry brady, janet m. Comparative historical analysis uses systematic comparison and analysis of.
Comparativehistorical analysis american sociological. Advances in comparativehistorical analysis edited by james mahoney and kathleen thelen. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences edited by. Pdf comparativehistorical methodology researchgate. On one hand, qualitative researchers in this field use a variety of methods of theory development. Dhabi for the workshop on comparative political development in postsoviet eurasia and the middle east in december 2014. In the area of descriptive inference, the comparative historical literature offers important tools for concept analysis and for achieving measurement validity. It identifies three major traits of cha that make this tradition an especially powerful approach for the study of development.
Comparativehistorical methods sage publications ltd. Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics peter a. Hall, aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics, in james mahoney and dietrich rueschemeyer eds, comparative historical analysis in the social sciences cambridge. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences.
The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning comparativehistorical. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences mahoney james ed. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences cambridge studies in comparative politics mahoney, james, rueschemeyer, dietrich on. Comparative historical analysis, casebased methods, comparative methods.
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. All content in this area was uploaded by james mahoney on mar 27, 2014. Henry brady and david collier, rethinking social inquiry. Manuscript s in press or in progress to the extent possible, iqmr uses the most uptodate readings on the methods covered at the institute. Mahoney j, rueschemeyer d comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. This article discusses process tracing as a methodology for testing hypotheses in the social sciences. Some of the liveliest debates about methodology in the social sciences center on comparative research.
One consequence is that we are often using manuscripts that are either in press or in. Comparativehistorical analysis and development studies. Pdf comparative historical analysis ece ozceri academia. 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. Contrasting quantitative and qualitative research james mahoney departments of political science and sociology, northwestern university, evanston, il 602081006 email. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences pdf free. This article discusses historical enquiry, which has always been central to the field of comparative politics. The last decade featured the emergence of a significant and growing literature concerning comparativehistorical methods. In rare instances, a publisher has elected to have a zero moving wall, so their current issues are available. Hall, p 2003 aligning ontology and methodology in comparative research. 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.
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