Introduction / Carles Boix & Susan C. Stokes
Multicausality, context-conditionality, and endogeneity / Robert J. Franzese, Jr.
Historical enquiry and comparative politics / James Mahoney & Celso M. Villegas
The case study, what it is and what it does / John Gerring
Field research / Elisabeth Jean Wood
Is the science of comparative politics possible? / Adam Przeworski
From case studies to social science : a strategy for political research / Robert H. Bates
Collective action theory / Elinor Ostrom
War, trade, and state formation / Hendrik Spruyt
Compliance, consent, and legitimacy / Russell Hardin
National identity / Liah Greenfeld & Jonathan Eastwood
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict / Ashutosh Varshney
Mass beliefs and democratic institutions / Christian Welzel & Ronald Inglehart
What causes democratization? / Barbara Geddes
Democracy and civic culture / Filippo Sabetti
Dictatorship : analytical approaches / Ronald Wintrobe
Rethinking revolutions : a neo-Tocquevillian perspective / Steven Pincus
Civil wars / Stathis N. Kalyvas
Contentious politics and social movements / Sidney Tarrow & Charles Tilly
Mechanisms of globalized protest movements / Mark I. Lichbach & Helma G.E. de Vries
The emergence of parties and party systems / Carles Boix
Party systems / Herbert Kitschelt
Voters and parties / Anne Wren & Kenneth M. McElwain
Parties and voters in emerging democracies / Frances Hagopian
Political clientelism / Susan C. Stokes
Political activism : new challenges, new opportunities / Pippa Norris
Aggregating and representing political preferences / G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
Electoral systems / Rein Taagepera
Separation of powers / David Samuels
Comparative judicial politics / John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth, & Charles Shipan
Federalism / Pablo Beramendi
Coalition theory and government formation / Kaare Strøm & Benjamin Nyblade
Comparative studies of the economy and the vote / Raymond M. Duch
Context-conditional political budget cycles / James E. Alt & Shanna S. Rose
The welfare state in global perspective / Matthew E. Carnes & Isabela Mares
The poor performance of poor democracies / Philip Keefer
Accountability and the survival of governments / José María Maravall
Economic transformation and comparative politics / Timothy Frye.