Table Of Contents:

• Volume One: Foundations and Early Exemplars
• The Politics
• Histories
• The Rise of the Roman Empire
• The Muqaddimah
• Method for the Easy Comprehension of History
• Comparative Political Analysis in Montesquieu and Tocqueville
• The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
• System of Logic
• On the Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions
• Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent
• The Limitations of the Comparative Method in Anthropology
• Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples
• An Essay in Correlation
• Comparative Analysis of Political Ideologies
• A Preliminary Statement
• The Comparative Method in Anthropology
• Volume Two: The Logic of Comparative Methods
• Macrocomparative Research Methods
• Informing Generality and Explaining Uniqueness
• The Place of Case Studies in Comparative Research
• Historical Explanation and Comparative Method
• Towards a Theory of the History of Society
• Causal Inference and Comparative Methods
• Strategies in Comparative Sociology
• Comparative Cross-National Methodology
• On the Scope and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research
• Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology
• A Debate on Methodological Issues
• Introduction
• Problems and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research
• How Comparative Is Comparative Research?
• Making Comparative Research Cumulative
• Galton's Problem
• The Logic of Cross-Cultural Research
• Theory and Method in Comparative Research
• Two Strategies
• Toward Comparative Historiography
• The Development of Cross-National Comparative Research
• A Review of Current Problems and Possibilities
• The Comparative Method in Social Research
• Measurement in Comparative Research
• The Cross-Cultural Method
• Volume Three: Data (Sources and Problems) and Contemporary Exemplars
• PART ONE: DATA SOURCES AND PROBLEMS
• Concepts, Context and Discourse in a Comparative Case Study
• Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories
• Combining Large and Small in Comparative Politics
• Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study
• Europe through the Looking-Glass
• Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives
• The Quality and Quantity of Data for Cross-Cultural Studies
• Data Problems in Quantitative Comparative Analysis
• Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis
• A Specification of Periodization Strategies
• Comparative Field Studies
• Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis and a Hermeneutic Approach to Interview Data
• Comparative Research, Experimental Design and the Comparative Method
• PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY EXEMPLARS IN SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Comparative Political Systems
• A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics
• The Comparative Study of Organizations
• Democracy with Adjectives
• Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research
• The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions
• The Comparative Study of National Societies
• The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology
• Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
• The Comparative Method in Political Studies
• Comparative Social Mobility
• Comparative Politics
• A Half-Century Appraisal
• Comparative Sociology and the Comparative Method
• Comparing Historical Sequences - A Powerful Tool for Causal Analysis
• The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry
• Method and Theory in Comparative Urban Studies
• Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology
• PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY EXEMPLARS IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION
• The Comparative Method of Anthropology
• Measurement of Education in Comparative Research
• Case Study Research Methods and Comparative Education
• Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison
• The Comparative Method in Anthropological Perspective
• Cross-National Studies and the Analysis of Comparative Qualitative Research
• Comparative Education
• The Social Construction of the Modern World System
• Research Strategies in Comparative Education
• On Comparative Methods in Social-Cultural Anthropology and in Linguistics
• Volume Four: Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Problems and Prospects
• PART ONE: QUALITATIVE METHODS
• Where to Begin? A Survey of Five Approaches to Selecting Independent Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis
• Insights and Pitfalls
• Selection Bias in Qualitative Research
• Narrative as Data
• Linguistic and Statistical Tools for the Qualitative Study of Historical Events
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction
• Nominal, Ordinal and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis
• Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis
• The Logic of Qualitative Comparative Analysis
• Odious Comparisons
• Incommensurability, the Case Study and 'Small N's' in Sociology
• PART TWO: QUANTITATIVE METHODS
• New Directions in Quantitative Comparative Sociology
• Reduction of Complexity for a Small-N Analysis
• The Methodology of Necessary Conditions
• The Quantitative Study of National Character
• Interchronological and International Perspectives
• Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research
• A Paradigm Lost?
• Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study
• Quantitative Cross-National Analysis as a Research Tool in the Sociology of Developing Countries
• A Critical Examination
• Small N's and Big Conclusions
• An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases
• Strategies of Causal Inference in a Small-N Analysis