A01=Avner Greif
A01=Barry R. Weingast
A01=Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
A01=Margaret Levi
A01=Robert H. Bates
Analytic narrative
Ancien Regime
Author_Avner Greif
Author_Barry R. Weingast
Author_Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Author_Margaret Levi
Author_Robert H. Bates
Avner Greif
Calculation
Cambridge University Press
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Citizens (Spanish political party)
Comparative statics
Competition
Conscription
Cost-benefit analysis
Credibility
Domestic policy
Economic cost
Economic development
Economic efficiency
Economic growth
Economic history
Economic policy
Economics
Economy
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Estates General (France)
Explanation
Failed state
Fellow
Fiscal policy
Foreign policy
General Foods
Government
Government bond
Harvard University
Income
Inefficiency
Institution
Insurance
International Coffee Agreement
International relations
James Fearon
Legislature
Literature
Margaret Levi
Military service
Narrative
National Policy
National Science Foundation
Parliamentary system
Political agenda
Political economy
Political party
Political science
Political structure
Political system
Politics
Rational choice theory
Regime
Republicanism
Robert Bates (political scientist)
Ruler
Shapley value
Slavery
Stanford University
Supply (economics)
Supporter
Tariff
Tax
Voting
War
War effort
Warfare
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Product details
- ISBN 9780691001296
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Sep 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting empirically testable, general hypotheses from particular cases. The result is both a methodological manifesto and an applied handbook that political scientists, economic historians, sociologists, and students of political economy will find essential. In their jointly written introduction, the authors frame their approach to the origins and evolution of political institutions. The individual essays that follow demonstrate the concept of the analytic narrative--a rational-choice approach to explain political outcomes--in case studies. Avner Greif traces the institutional foundations of commercial expansion in twelfth-century Genoa.
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal analyzes how divergent fiscal policies affected absolutist European governments, while Margaret Levi examines the transformation of nineteenth-century conscription laws in France, the United States, and Prussia. Robert Bates explores the emergence of a regulatory organization in the international coffee market. Finally, Barry Weingast studies the institutional foundations of democracy in the antebellum United States and its breakdown in the Civil War. In the process, these studies highlight the economic role of political organizations, the rise and deterioration of political communities, and the role of coercion, especially warfare, in political life. The results are both empirically relevant and theoretically sophisticated. Analytic Narratives is an innovative and provocative work that bridges the gap between the game-theoretic and empirically driven approaches in political economy. Political historians will find the use of rational-choice models novel; theorists will discover arguments more robust and nuanced than those derived from abstract models.
The book improves on earlier studies by advocating--and applying--a cross-disciplinary approach to explain strategic decision making in history.
Robert H. Bates is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Faculty Fellow of the Institute of International Development at Harvard University. Avner Greif is Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and the Harry Bridges Chair in Labor Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
