Analytic narratives
By: Robert H. Bates ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bates, Robert H.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Political stability.; Economic history.; International relations.; Game theory.; Rational choice theory.
Description: 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.

The result is both a methodological manifesto and an applied handbook that political scientists, economic historians, sociologists, and students of political economy will find essential.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.