Analytic Narratives

by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Robert H. Bates, Barry R. Weingast, et al.

Book Overview

Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting empirically testable, general hypotheses from particular cases...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691001294
• ISBN13: 9780691001296
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"