Analytic Narratives

Name: Analytic Narratives
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ISBN: 9780691001296

ISBN-10: 0691001294

ISBN-13: 9780691001296

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast

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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…

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List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.10" wide x 10.31" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics at the California Institute of Technology.

Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Self-Enforcing Political Systems and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa



The Political Economy of Absolutism Reconsidered



Conscription: The Price of Citizenship



Political Stability and Civil War: Institutions, Commitment, and American Democracy



The International Coffee Organization: An International Institution


Conclusion


Appendix


Index