Comparative Politics and Methodology: Forms, Concepts, and Systemic Interdependence

Stefan Nowak

Sociology as inherently comparative

T. R. Gurr

Nominal variables preceding quantitative data

Richard Rose

Lesson-drawing across time and space

Peter Flora & Arnold Heidenheimer

Common systemic drivers of welfare states

Ernst Haas & Peter A. Hall

Contested diffusion of epistemic ideas

Michael Bruno & Jeffrey Sachs

Critique of uniform macroeconomic models

Karl Deutsch

Global quantitative political indicators

Jean Blondel

Global analysis of executive leadership

Samuel Beer & Philip Williams

Idiographic single-nation studies

Melvin Kohn

Critique of culture-bound domestic research

Michael Lewis-Beck & Tom Rice

False universalism in government growth

E. A. Freeman

Universal conceptual scheme for global politics