Latin America In Comparative Perspective

New Approaches To Methods And Analysis

Peter H Smith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

1995
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-2105-9 (ISBN)

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This book highlights the necessity of analyzing Latin American society and politics within broad comparative frameworks. It explores methodological strategies for regional comparison and offers new approaches to the study of women, state power, corporatism, and political culture.

Peter H. Smith is Simòn Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of California at San Diego. He is the editor of Drug Policy in the Americas (Westview, 1992).

Preface -- About the book -- About the Editor and Contributors -- The Changing Agenda for Social Science Research on Latin America -- Analytical Strategies -- Contending Paradigms for Cross-Regional Comparison: Development Strategies and Commodity Chains in East Asia and Latin America -- Purposes and Methods of Intraregional Comparison -- Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice -- Conceptual Issues -- Rewriting the Scripts: Gender in the Comparative Study of Latin American Politics -- Trajectory of a Concept: “Corporatism” in the Study of Latin American Politics -- Assessments of State Strength -- Reassessing Political Culture -- Political Roles of Social Science -- Polls, Political Discourse, and the Public Sphere: The Spin on Peru’s Fuji-golpe -- Public Opinion Research in Mexico -- Public Opinion Research in Russia and Eastern Europe

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.5.1995
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-8133-2105-0 / 0813321050
ISBN-13	978-0-8133-2105-9 / 9780813321059
Zustand	Neuware