Offering students and researchers in the behavioural and social sciences a brief and accessible introduction to the comparative method, it is ideal for students of public administration, policy, sociology, political science, social psychology, and international relations. It provides readers with basic guidelines for comparative research by addressing all key methodological issues.

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In Weber's wake, Smelser (1966; see also Smelser, 1973, 1976) adopted the threefold subdivision of methods, and the comparative method has since been “one of the basic methods …of establishing general empirical propositions” (Lijphart, 1971, p. 682; see also Jackman, 1985). What must be stressed here ...

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