Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction - Carles Boix & Susan C. Stokes Part II. Theory an d methodology 2. Multicausality, context-conditionally, and endogeneity - Robert J. Franzese, Jr. 3. Historical enquiry and comparative politics - James Mahoney and Celso M. Villegas 4. The case study: what it is and what it does - John Gerring 5. Field research - Elisabeth Jean Wood 6. Is the science of comparative politics possible? - Adam Przeworski 7. From case studies to social science: a strategy for political research - Robert H. Bates 8. Collective action theory - Elinor Ostrom Part III. States and state formation political consent 9. War, trade, and state formation - Hendrik Spruyt 10. Compliance, consent, and legitimacy - Russell Hardin 11. National identity - Liah Greenfeld and Jonathan Eastwood 12. Ethnicity and ethnic conflict - Ashutosh Varshney Part IV. Political regimes and transitions 13. Mass beliefs and democratic institutions - Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart 14. What causes democratization? - Barbara Geddes 15. Democracy and civic culture - Filippo Sabetti 16. Dictatorship: analytical approaches - Ronald Wintrobe Part V. Political instability, political conflict 17. Rethinking revolutions: a neo-tocquevillian perspective - Steven Pincus 18. Civil Wars - Stathis N. Kalyvas 19. Contentious politics and social movements - Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly 20. Mechanisms of globalized protest movements - Mark I. Lichbach and Helma G. E. de Vries Part VI. Mass political mobilization 21. The emergence of parties and party systems - Carles Boix 22. Party systems - Herbert Kitschelt 23. Voters and parties - Anne Wren & Kenneth M. Mcelwain 24. Parties and voters in emerging democracies - Frances Hagopian 25. Political clientelism - Susan C. Stokes 26. Political activism: new challenges, new opportunities - Pippa Norris Part VII. Processing political demands 27. Aggregating and representing political preferences - G. Bingham Powell, JR. 28. Electoral systems - Rein Taagepera 29. Separation of powers - David Samuels 30. Comparative Judicial Politics - John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth, and Charles Shipan 31. Federalism - Pablo Beramendi 32. Coalition theory and government formation - Kaare Strom and Benjamin Nyblade Part VIII. Governance in comparative perspective 33. Comparative studies of the economy and the vote - Raymond M. Duch 34. Context-conditional political budget cycles - James E. Alt and Shanna S. Rose 35. The welfare state in global perspective - Matthew E. Carnes and Isabela Mares 36. The Poor Performance of Poor Democracies - Philip Keefer 37. Accountability and the survival of governments - Jose Maria Maravall 38. Economic transformation and comparative politics - Timothy Frye