We are all comparativists Now: Why and how single-country scholarship must adapt and incorporate the comparative politics approach

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1084-1108

  Lees, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Comparative analysis; Epistemology; Methodology; Single country scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747186273     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414005284381     Document Type: Article

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