INTRODUCTION. A programme for the advancement of comparative social science research: the action of the International Social Science Council

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. INTRODUCTION. A programme for the advancement of comparative social science research: the action of the International Social Science Council 1
4. PART I: Cross-cultural comparisons
5. CHAPTER I. The logic of cross-cultural analysis: why exceptions? 17
6. CHAPTER II. Computer summarization of the coded cross-cultural literature 54
7. PART II: Comparative histories of processes of development
8. CHAPTER III. Concepts in comparative historical analysis 67
9. CHAPTER IV. Comparative analysis of processes of modernization 82
10. CHAPTER V. Political systems and political development 93
11. CHAPTER VI. Historians and other social scientists: the comparative analysis of nation-building in Western societies 102
12. CHAPTER VII. Modern nations and the study of political modernization 118
13. CHAPTER VIII. The empirical and statistical basis for comparative analyses of historical change 129
14. PART III: Quantitative approaches to cross-national comparisons
15. CHAPTER IX. Research possibilities using aggregate political and social data 143
16. CHAPTER X. Aggregate comparisons: problems and prospects of quantitative analysis based on national accounts 163
17. CHAPTER XI. Aggregate comparisons: the validity and reliability of economic data 171
18. CHAPTER XII. The cross-cultural use of sample surveys: problems of comparability 176
19. CHAPTER XIII. Survey materials collected in the developing countries: obstacles to comparisons 210