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Part I. INTRODUCTION

• 1: Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes: Introduction

• Part II. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY

• 2: Robert J. Franzese Jr: Multicausality, Context-Conditionality, and Endogeneity in Comparative Politics

• 3: James Mahoney and Celso M. Villegas: Historical Inquiry and Comparative Politics

• 4: John Gerring: The Case Study: What it is and What it Does

• 5: Elisabeth Jean Wood: Field Research

• 6: Adam Przeworski: Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible?

• 7: Robert H. Bates: From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research

• 8: Elinor Ostrom: Collective Action Theory

• Part III. STATES AND STATE FORMATION: POLITICAL CONSENT

• 9: Hendrick Spruyt: War, Trade and State Formation

• 10: Russell Hardin: Compliance, Consent, and Legitimacy

• 11: Liah Greenfeld and Jonathan Eastwood: National Identity

• 12: Ashutosh Varshney: Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicy

• Part IV. POLITICAL REGIMES AND TRANSITIONS

• 13: Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart: Mass Beliefs

• 14: Barbara Geddes: #What Causes Democratization?

• 15: Filippo Sabetti: Democracy and Civic Culture

• 16: Ronald Wintrobe: Dictatorship: Analytical Approaches

• Part V. POLITICAL INSTABILITY, POLITICAL CONFLICT

• 17: Steven Pincus: Rethinking Revolutions: A Neo-Torquevillian Perpective

• 18: Stathis N. Kalyvas: Civil Wars

• 19: Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly: Contentious Politics and Social Movements

• 20: Mark I. Lichbach and Helma G. E. de Vries: Mechanisms of Globalized Protest Movements

• Part VI. MASS POLITICAL MOBILIZATION

• 21: Carles Boix: Emergence of Parties and Party Systems

• 22: Herbert Kitschelt: Party Systems

• 23: Anne Wren and Kenneth M. McElwain: Voters and Parties

• 24: Frances Hagopian: Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies

• 25: Susan C. Stokes: Political Clientelism

• 26: Pippa Norris: Political Activism: New Challenges, New Opportunities

• Part VII. PROCESSING POLITICAL DEMANDS

• 27: G. Bingham Powell Jr.: Aggregating and Representing Political Preferences

• 28: Rein Taagepera: Electoral Systems

• 29: David Samuels: Separation of Powers

• 30: John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth and Charles Shipan: Comparative Judicial Politics

• 31: Pablo Beramendi: Federalism

• 32: Kaare Strom and Benjamin Nyblade: Coalition Theory and Government Formation

• Part VIII. GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

• 33: Raymond M. Duch: Comparative Studies of the Economy and the Vote

• 34: James E. Alt and Shanna S. Rose: Context-Conditional Political Budget Cycles

• 35: Matthew E. Carnes and Isabela Mares: The Welfare State in Global Per