Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-regional Applications

"This book offers a bold, original, and necessary statement about the dual promise of comparative area studies research: new theoretical insights of broad utility and novel understandings of particular cases from multiple world regions."-James Mahoney, Northwestern University "This volume stakes out a new and provocative position in the old debate between social science and area studies. The contributions are clear-eyed about the challenges of this style of work, but make a compelling case that it belongs in the comparativist's toolkit." - Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University