ISBN10: 0691001294, ISBN13: 9780691001296, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover 1998. Paperback. Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? This work offers a methodological response to this important question. It bridges the gap between the game-theoretic and empirically driven approaches in political economy. Num Pages: 264 pages, 40 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 0691001294, ISBN13: 9780691001296, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting empirically testable, general hypotheses from particular cases. The result is both a methodological manifesto and an applied handbook that political scientists, economic historians, sociologists, and students of political economy will find essential.In their jointly written introduction, the authors frame their approach to the origins and evolution of political institutions. The individual essays that follow demonstrate the concept of the analytic narrative--a rational-choice approach to explain political outcomes--in case studies. Avner Greif traces the institutional foundations of commercial expansion in twelfth-century Genoa. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal analyzes how divergent fiscal policies affected absolutist European governments, while Margaret Levi examines the transformation of nineteenth-century conscription laws in France, the United States, and Prussia. Robert Bates explores the emergence of a regulatory organization in the ...
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