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Article: Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2006
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Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Edited by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xix plus 444 pp.).
An appraisal of the accomplishments of "comparative historical analysis" since the publication of Barrington Moore, Jr.'s classic Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966), this volume deserves the attention of historians. The contributors are sociologists or political scientists, and they distinguish their work from that of historians by denoting it theory-grounded. But they distinguish it as well from other social scientists, ...