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ISBN10: 019956602X, ISBN13: 9780199566020, [publisher: Oxford University Press, US] Softcover The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of ch apters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics . Part I includes chapters surveying the key research methodologies employed in comparative politics (the comparative method; the use of histor y; the practice and status of case-study research; the contributions of fie ld research) and assessing the possibility of constructing a science of com parative politics. Parts II to IV examine the foundations of political order: the origins of states and the extent to which they relate to war and to economic development; the sources of compliance or political obligation among citizens; democratic transitions, the role of civic culture; authori tarianism; revolutions; civil wars and contentious politics. Parts V and VI explore the mobilization, representation and coordination of political dema nds. Part V considers why parties emerge, the forms they take and the ways in which voters choose parties. It then includes chapters on collective act ion, social movements and political participation. Part VI opens up with essays on the mechanisms through which political demands are aggregated and coordinated. This sets the agenda to the systematic exploration of the wor kings and effects of particular institutions: ...