In the postWorld 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 policyrelevant 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 contextspecific insights from traditional area studies and the logic of cross and interregional empirical research. This first book devoted to CAS explores methodological rationales and illustrative applications to demonstrate how areabased expertise can be fruitfully integrated with cuttingedge comparative analytical frameworks.

Binding: Paperback;322 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 617.59 g; Dimensions: N/A

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