Paul Chaisty
QUESTION 1: Does cultural analysis of political behaviour enhance or undermine the comparative method?
See the departmental reading list reading list for Hilary Week 6. You might also take a look at:
Kohli, A. et. al, ‘The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium’, World Politics,
48: 1-49, 1995
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25053951.pdf
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 'Is a Science of Comparative Politics Possible?' in his Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy, 1984.
(Other paper - Przeworski - Is the science of comparative politics possible - might be worth constrasting it with the macintyre one - http://as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/2800/isthescience.pdf
