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Analytic Narratives showcases cutting-edge work in the comparative and historical application of rational-choice theory.
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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.


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  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press (August 17, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0691001294
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691001296
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #723,113 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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elite controls taxation, interclan cooperation, nonmember markets, slavery dimension, controlling clan, antislavery initiatives, pivotal legislator, new political historians, roasting firms, interclan war, clan challenges, sectional balance, consulate posts, collusion game, military service policy, sectional equilibrium, antislavery measures, limited national government, purchased exemptions, additional possessions, exportable production, military format, contingent consent, large roasters, rural landholders
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United States, New York, Cambridge University Press, General Foods, Old Regime, Estates General, Kansas-Nebraska Act, House of Representatives, Princeton University Press, Department of State, Missouri Compromise, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Northern Democrats, Oxford University Press, Sales de Bohigas, Early Modern Europe, Foreign Affairs Committee, Glorious Revolution, International Coffee Organization, Latin America, Crusader States, French Crown, University of California Press, World War, Barry Weingast
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The book under review is one of the best books that has appeared in the field of Public Choice Theroy. Myself doing a post-doctoral research on the public choice theory, I found it a necessary reading for not only those interested in the field but also for general scholars of political theory. The author has covered almost all the necessary subjects about which all over the world increasing attention is being paid or needs to be paid. This book is an answer to those who find public choice theory as basically a statistical theory only. The books has actually covered all the philosophical underpinnings of the public choice therory. This books stands out to be a highly recommended reading for scholars of social science. Sukant Vyas Lecturer Department of Political Science Dyal Singh (Evening) College Lodi Road New Delhi - 110003 (India)
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