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Comparative Area Studies Comparative Area Studies Methodological Rationales and Cross- Regional Applications E ditEd by A i. A riEl hrAm P k Atrick öllnEr r S udrA il 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 084638– 1 (pbk) ISBN 978– 0– 19– 084637– 4 (hbk) 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Paperback printed by WebCom, Inc., Canada Hardback printed by Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc., United States of America This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Giovanni Sartori, whose writings on concepts and methods have been informing sophisticated discussions about strategies of comparative analysis for nearly half a century. CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii List of Contributors xv PART I Introduction 1. Comparative Area Studies: What It Is, What It Can Do 3 Patrick Köllner, Rudra Sil, and Ariel I. Ahram PART II What Comparative Area Studies Brings to the Table 2. Comparative Area Studies: The Golden Mean between Area Studies and Universalist Approaches? 29 Dirk Berg- Schlosser 3. Depth Perception: Improving Analytic Focus through Cross-and Interregional Comparisons 45 Laurence Whitehead 4. Comparisons across World Regions: Managing Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Challenges 66 Christian von Soest and Alexander Stroh 5. Context, Concepts, and Comparison in Southeast Asian Studies 85 Mikko Huotari and Jürgen Rüland viii Contents 6. American Political Development in the Mirror of Europe: Democracy Expansion and the Evolution of Electoral Systems in the 19th Century 103 Amel Ahmed 7. Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings 119 André Bank PART III CAS in Action: Leveraging Cross- Regional Comparison 8. Comparing Post- communist Authoritarianism in Russia and China: The Case of Anti- corruption Campaigns 133 Cheng Chen 9. Comparative Area Studies and the Analytical Challenge of Diffusion: Explaining Outcomes in the Arab Spring and Beyond 152 Ariel I. Ahram 10. Comparing Separatism across Regions: Rebellious Legacies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East 168 Benjamin Smith 11. Gaining by Shedding Case Selection Strictures: Natural Resource Booms and Institution Building in Latin America and Africa 185 Ryan Saylor 12. Organizing Production across Regions: The Wenzhou Model in China and Italy 204 Calvin P. Chen PART IV Conclusion 13. Triangulating Area Studies, Not Just Methods: How Cross- Regional Comparison Aids Qualitative and Mixed- Method Research 225 Rudra Sil Bibliography 247 Index 289 LIST OF FIGURES 2.1 Levels of Analysis according to Coleman (1990) and Esser (1993) 32 2.2 MDSO and MSDO Designs 34 2.3 Types of Political Participation 42 5.1 Typology of Area Studies Comparisons 94 10.1 Contentious and Quiescent Trajectories in Kurdistan 174 13.1 The Epistemological Range of Different Styles of Small- N Comparative Analysis 238
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