比較地域研究：方法論と応用 Comparative Area Studies : Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications

著者名：Ahram, Ariel I. (EDT)/Köllner, Patrick (EDT)/Sil, Rudra (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2018/01/03発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190846381
• eISBN：9780190846404

Description

In the post-World War II era, the emergence of 'area studies' marked a signal development in the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many dismissed area studies as favoring narrow description over general theory. Still, area studies continues to plays a key, if unacknowledged, role in bringing new data, new theories, and valuable policy-relevant insights to social sciences. In Comparative Area Studies, three leading figures in the field have gathered an international group of scholars in a volume that promises to be a landmark in a resurgent field. The book upholds two basic convictions: that intensive regional research remains indispensable to the social sciences and that this research needs to employ comparative referents from other regions to demonstrate its broader relevance. Comparative Area Studies (CAS) combines the context-specific insights from traditional area studies and the logic of cross- and inter-regional empirical research. This first book devoted to CAS explores methodological rationales and illustrative applications to demonstrate how area-based expertise can be fruitfully integrated with cutting-edge comparative analytical frameworks.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Comparative Area Studies: What It Is, What It Can DoPatrick Köllner, Rudra Sil and Ariel I. AhramPart One: What Comparative Area Studies Brings to the Table2. Comparative Area Studies: The Golden Mean between Area Studies and Universalist Approaches?Dirk Berg-Schlosser3. Depth-Perception: Improving Analytical Focus Through Cross- and Inter-regional ComparisonsLaurence Whitehead4. Comparing Across World Regions: Assets and PitfallsChristian von Soest and Alexander Stroh5. Context, Concepts, and Comparison in Southeast AsiaMikko Huotari and Jürgen Rüland6. American Political Development in the Mirror of Europe: Democracy Expansion andthe Evolution of Electoral Systems in the 19th CenturyAmel Ahmed7. Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab UprisingsAndré BankPart Two: CAS in Action: Leveraging Cross-Regional Comparison8. Comparing Post-Communist Authoritarianism in Russia and China:The Case of Anti-Corruption CampaignsCheng Chen9. Comparative Area Studies and the Analytical Challenge of Diffusion: Explaining Outcomesin the Arab Spring and BeyondAriel I. Ahram10. Comparing Separatism Across Regions: Rebellious Legacies in Aceh, Balochistan and KurdistanBenjamin Smith11. Gaining by Shedding Case Selection Strictures: Natural Resource Booms andInstitution Building in Latin America and AfricaRyan Saylor12. Organizing Production Across Regions: The Wenzhou Model in China and ItalyCalvin P. ChenConclusion13. Triangulating Area Studies, Not Just Methods: How Cross-Regional Comparison AidsQualitative and Mixed-Method ResearchRudra SilBibliography